New Canaan, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m290 ft 90 m170 ft 50 m100 ft 30 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
New Canaan sits at about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 90 m
most residents: 200–440 ft
Lowest
100 ft 30 m
on the south side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the north side
Average
340 ft 105 m
all land inside town boundaries
New Canaan spans about 510 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 100 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Canaan | 300 ft95 m |
| Airport (HPN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 439 ft134 m |
| Average of all land | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 21,160 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 953 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1468° N, 73.4948° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Westchester County (HPN) 439 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 06840
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lewisboro, NY550 ft
- Pound Ridge, NY520 ft
- North Castle, NY500 ft
- Scotts Corners, NY490 ft
- Armonk, NY470 ft
- Bedford, NY370 ft
- Mount Kisco, NY340 ft
- Bedford Hills, NY340 ft
- Katonah, NY290 ft
- New Canaan290 ft
- Rye Brook, NY180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut167th highest of 333
- Towns in Fairfield County50th highest of 90
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Canoe Hill471 ft
- Church Hill, Fairfield County460 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.