Canton, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m950 ft 290 m840 ft 255 m610 ft 185 m380 ft 115 m270 ft 80 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
Canton sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 340–780 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the north side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside town boundaries
Canton spans about 910 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Canton | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (BDL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10.0 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 173 ft53 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 10,273 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 418 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8245° N, 72.8937° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Farmington River → Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Bradley International (BDL) 173 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 06019 06020 06022 06059
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sandisfield, MA1,470 ft
- Tolland, MA1,370 ft
- Blandford, MA1,320 ft
- Granville, MA1,030 ft
- Canton530 ft
- Southwick, MA260 ft
- Westfield, MA210 ft
- Springfield, MA200 ft
- Longmeadow, MA160 ft
- West Springfield Town, MA160 ft
- Agawam Town, MA140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut87th highest of 333
- Towns in Hartford County4th highest of 48
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.