Valley Stream, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
41 ft 12 m31 ft 9 m26 ft 8 m17 ft 5 m7 ft 2 m2 ft 1 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
Valley Stream sits at about 19 ft (6 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
19 ft 6 m
most residents: 10–29 ft
Lowest
2 ft 1 m
on the south side
Highest
41 ft 12 m
on the northwest side
Average
19 ft 6 m
all land inside village limits
Valley Stream spans about 39 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 | 19 ft6 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 41 ft12 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the south side | 2 ft1 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Valley Stream | 17 ft5 m |
| Airport (JFK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi southwest of the village limits | 13 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 19 ft6 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Nassau County, New York, United States
- Population
- 40,232 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Density
- 11,568 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6643° N, 73.7085° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- John F Kennedy International (JFK) 13 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 11580 11581
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elmont60 ft
- North Valley Stream40 ft
- Malverne32 ft
- North Lynbrook27 ft
- Lynbrook21 ft
- Hewlett20 ft
- Valley Stream19 ft
- Hewlett Bay Park14 ft
- Hewlett Harbor9 ft
- Woodmere9 ft
- South Valley Stream8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York2,042nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Nassau County108th highest of 135
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Harbor Hill, Nassau County370 ft
- Willink Hill150 ft
- Maspeth Plateau130 ft
- Laurel Hill, Queens County110 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. All public domain.