Scotia, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 110 m330 ft 100 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 80 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Scotia sits at about 270 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 80 m
most residents: 240–280 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the east side
Highest
370 ft 110 m
on the north side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside village limits
Scotia spans about 160 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 270 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 370 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scotia | 250 ft75 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi southeast of the village limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Schenectady County, New York, United States
- Population
- 7,321 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,337 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8265° N, 73.9643° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mohawk River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Albany International (ALB) 285 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 12302
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mariaville Lake1,310 ft
- Princetown620 ft
- Charlton470 ft
- Niskayuna390 ft
- East Glenville340 ft
- Schenectady340 ft
- Rotterdam340 ft
- Glenville320 ft
- Clifton Knolls-Mill Creek300 ft
- Guilderland280 ft
- Scotia270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,604th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Schenectady Countylowest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Three Ponds Mountain3,010 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Tenant Mountain2,767 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.