Fairfield County, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,270 ft 390 m960 ft 290 m800 ft 245 m480 ft 145 m160 ft 50 m0 ft 0 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairfield County averages about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Holly Pond to 1,270 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
380 ft 115 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,270 ft 390 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Holly Pond
Fairfield County spans about 1,270 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,270 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Holly Pond | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
26 mi south to north through Bridgeport.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 985,068 2024 est., sum of towns
- Land area
- 625.0 sq mi + 212.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,576 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 99%
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Note
- Connecticut replaced counties with planning regions for Census data in 2022; this page uses the 2020 county boundary.
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring historical counties sharing a border, by average
- Litchfield County920 ft
- Putnam County, NY660 ft
- Dutchess County, NY550 ft
- Fairfield County380 ft
- Westchester County, NY360 ft
- New Haven County310 ft
- Nassau County, NY89 ft
- Suffolk County, NY73 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Historical counties in Connecticut4th highest of 8
- Counties in the United States2,508th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Turner Mountain1,230 ft
- Pond Mountain, Fairfield County1,190 ft
- Wanzer Mountain1,160 ft
- Beaver Bog Mountain1,160 ft
- Briggs Hill1,080 ft
All 91 towns in Fairfield County by typical elevation
- West Mountain800 ft
- Taylor Corners780 ft
- Bigelow Corners750 ft
- New Fairfield730 ft
- Lakes West720 ft
- Inglenook700 ft
- Ball Pond690 ft
- Sherman680 ft
- Ridgefield660 ft
- Lakeside Woods640 ft
- Redding Center640 ft
- Mamanasco Lake630 ft
- Ridgebury610 ft
- Lakes East600 ft
- Redding570 ft
- Candlewood Shores540 ft
- Route 7 Gateway540 ft
- Candlewood Lake Club partly530 ft
- Dodgingtown530 ft
- East Village530 ft
- Botsford510 ft
- Candlewood Isle510 ft
- Kellogg Point510 ft
- Newtown510 ft
- Bogus Hill500 ft
- Stepney500 ft
- Topstone500 ft
- Monroe490 ft
- Brookfield Center490 ft
- Candlewood Orchards480 ft
- Borough of Newtown480 ft
- Candlewood Knolls470 ft
- Danbury470 ft
- Knollcrest460 ft
- Brookfield460 ft
- Bethel450 ft
- Tashua440 ft
- Sail Harbor430 ft
- Sandy Hook430 ft
- Daniels Farm420 ft
- Georgetown420 ft
- Easton420 ft
- Long Hill410 ft
- Branchville370 ft
- Hawleyville370 ft
- Trumbull350 ft
- Wilton340 ft
- Shelton310 ft
- Weston310 ft
- Murray300 ft
- New Canaan290 ft
- Sacred Heart University270 ft
- Plattsville260 ft
- Cannondale230 ft
- Oronoque220 ft
- Trumbull Center200 ft
- South Wilton190 ft
- Wilton Center180 ft
- Rock Ridge170 ft
- Glenville150 ft
- Staples120 ft
- Fairfield University120 ft
- Fairfield110 ft
- Coleytown100 ft
- Old Hill100 ft
- Poplar Plains94 ft
- Norwalk90 ft
- Noroton Heights84 ft
- Pemberwick80 ft
- Greenwich78 ft
- Darien77 ft
- Stratford75 ft
- Westport70 ft
- Stamford65 ft
- Darien Downtown65 ft
- Byram56 ft
- Cos Cob52 ft
- Greens Farms52 ft
- Riverside52 ft
- Compo46 ft
- Noroton46 ft
- Bridgeport43 ft
- Westport Village41 ft
- Tokeneke36 ft
- Stratford Downtown34 ft
- Lordship22 ft
- Old Greenwich21 ft
- Mill Plain20 ft
- Indian Field19 ft
- Southport18 ft
- Saugatuck14 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (Census 2020), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −9 ft at 41.0526° N, 73.5349° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: neighboring historical counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Population: the 2024 estimates of the towns that made up the county in 2020 (Census no longer estimates Connecticut's counties).
- 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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.