Troy, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 150 m370 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m190 ft 60 m66 ft 20 m5 ft 1 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Troy sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 27–350 ft
Lowest
5 ft 1 m
on the south side
Highest
500 ft 150 m
on the east side
Average
210 ft 65 m
all land inside city limits
Troy spans about 495 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 500 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 5 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Troy | 35 ft11 m |
| Airport (ALB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi west of the city limits | 285 ft87 m |
| Average of all land | 210 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Rensselaer County, New York, United States
- Population
- 51,065 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.4 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,930 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7284° N, 73.6918° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Albany International (ALB) 285 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 12180 12182
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Greenbush390 ft
- Wynantskill390 ft
- Loudonville320 ft
- Siena College310 ft
- Latham310 ft
- Cohoes200 ft
- Troy170 ft
- Waterford160 ft
- Menands160 ft
- Watervliet36 ft
- Green Island28 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,742nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Rensselaer County25th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Huntersfield Mountain3,421 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Black Spruce Mountain2,350 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.