Litchfield County, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,380 ft 725 m1,830 ft 560 m1,560 ft 475 m1,010 ft 310 m470 ft 140 m190 ft 60 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Litchfield County averages about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the southwest side to 2,380 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
920 ft 280 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,380 ft 725 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
190 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
Litchfield County spans about 2,190 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,380 ft725 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 190 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Torrington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 188,143 2024 est., sum of towns
- Land area
- 920.5 sq mi + 24.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 204 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- 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
- Berkshire County, MA1,410 ft
- Litchfield County920 ft
- Hampden County, MA650 ft
- Dutchess County, NY550 ft
- Fairfield County380 ft
- Hartford County320 ft
- New Haven County310 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Historical counties in Connecticuthighest of 8
- Counties in the United States1,565th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bear Mountain, Litchfield County2,320 ft
- Gridley Mountain2,220 ft
- Bald Peak2,006 ft
- Bradford Mountain1,960 ft
- Thorpe Mountain1,790 ft
All 46 towns in Litchfield County by typical elevation
- Norfolk1,310 ft
- Goshen1,270 ft
- Warren1,240 ft
- Colebrook1,230 ft
- Borough of Litchfield1,030 ft
- Litchfield990 ft
- Cornwall970 ft
- Morris950 ft
- Barkhamsted920 ft
- New Preston900 ft
- Bantam900 ft
- Bethlehem890 ft
- Harwinton890 ft
- Northwest Harwinton880 ft
- Winchester860 ft
- Bethlehem Village860 ft
- New Hartford850 ft
- Winsted820 ft
- Washington820 ft
- Sharon810 ft
- West Cornwall810 ft
- Salisbury810 ft
- Torrington800 ft
- Lakeville770 ft
- Plymouth720 ft
- Town of Canaan720 ft
- North Canaan690 ft
- Falls Village680 ft
- Bridgewater680 ft
- Roxbury670 ft
- Canaan660 ft
- Kent650 ft
- Thomaston650 ft
- Terryville640 ft
- Watertown630 ft
- Riverton610 ft
- Woodbury560 ft
- Candlewood Lake Club530 ft
- Oakville530 ft
- Cornwall Bridge490 ft
- Pleasant Valley480 ft
- Chimney Point470 ft
- New Milford440 ft
- New Hartford Center420 ft
- Woodbury Center290 ft
- Gaylordsville280 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.
- 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.