Elevation of Hempstead, New York, United States of America

Hempstead, New York, United States of America is 19 m (62 ft) above sea level.

Hempstead's height from sea level is 19 metres, or 62 feet. GeoNames reads 21 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 36 m

Mean 21 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 29 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 24

among the towns of New York, and 806th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Freeport

6.2 km to the SE, at 6 m, 13 m lower.

Cross-section through Hempstead

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hempstead; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 19 m at 13 km west to 19 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 40 m at 13 km north to 0 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Hempstead, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Hempstead

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Freeport	6.2 km	SE	6 m (20 ft)	−13 m
Levittown	9.1 km	E	30 m (98 ft)	+11 m
Hicksville	10.5 km	NE	49 m (161 ft)	+30 m
West Babylon	22.3 km	E	15 m (49 ft)	−4 m
New Rochelle	26.7 km	NW	26 m (85 ft)	+7 m

Peaks and passes near Hempstead

High Hill, peak at 118 m (387 ft), 20.3 km to the NE — 99 m above the town.
Harbor Hill, peak at 110 m (361 ft), 10.3 km to the N — 91 m above the town.
West Hills, peak at 106 m (348 ft), 19.9 km to the NE — 87 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Hempstead is

Latitude 40.7062128, longitude -73.6187397. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Hempstead's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 21 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.