Town of Canaan, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 595 m1,600 ft 490 m1,420 ft 435 m1,060 ft 325 m700 ft 215 m520 ft 160 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Town of Canaan sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 640–1,190 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,960 ft 595 m
on Bradford Mountain
Average
1,060 ft 325 m
all land inside town boundaries
Town of Canaan spans about 1,440 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Bradford Mountain | 1,960 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the middle of Town of Canaan.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 1,088 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9565° N, 73.3373° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Housatonic River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 1
- 06031
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Washington, MA1,660 ft
- Sandisfield, MA1,470 ft
- New Marlborough, MA1,030 ft
- North East, NY790 ft
- Millerton, NY730 ft
- Town of Canaan720 ft
- Sheffield, MA680 ft
- Copake, NY670 ft
- Copake Falls, NY650 ft
- Amenia, NY570 ft
- Wassaic, NY470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut38th highest of 333
- Towns in Litchfield County26th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- Plateau Mountain3,830 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town boundaries, 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 town boundaries (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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.