Meriden, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m780 ft 240 m660 ft 200 m420 ft 130 m180 ft 55 m63 ft 19 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Meriden sits at about 210 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
210 ft 65 m
most residents: 130–350 ft
Lowest
63 ft 19 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,020 ft 311 m
on West Peak
Average
290 ft 90 m
all land inside city limits
Meriden spans about 957 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 | 210 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on West Peak | 1,020 ft311 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 63 ft19 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Meriden | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (MMK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.2 mi southwest of the city limits | 103 ft31 m |
| Average of all land | 290 ft90 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 60,849 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.7 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,564 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5382° N, 72.8070° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Meriden Markham Municipal (MMK) 103 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 06450 06451
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Granville, MA1,030 ft
- Southwick, MA260 ft
- Meriden210 ft
- Longmeadow, MA160 ft
- Agawam Town, MA140 ft
- East Marion, NY31 ft
- Peconic, NY20 ft
- Southold, NY18 ft
- Greenport West, NY12 ft
- Village of Greenport, NY10 ft
- Orient, NY10 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut202nd highest of 333
- Towns in New Haven County14th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Cathole Mountain710 ft
- Chauncey Peak680 ft
- Buckwheat Hill466 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.