New Preston, CT Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m1,070 ft 325 m980 ft 295 m780 ft 235 m580 ft 180 m480 ft 150 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Preston sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 620–1,070 ft
Lowest
480 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the northeast side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
New Preston spans about 790 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 480 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Preston | 670 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 1,126 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.3 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 154 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6751° N, 73.3518° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Housatonic River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 1
- 06777
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Preston900 ft
- Union Vale, NY690 ft
- Pawling, NY650 ft
- Patterson, NY620 ft
- Amenia, NY570 ft
- Putnam Lake, NY560 ft
- Village of Pawling, NY490 ft
- Wassaic, NY470 ft
- Wingdale, NY460 ft
- Dover, NY460 ft
- Dover Plains, NY380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut11th highest of 333
- Towns in Litchfield County10th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- Mount Tobias2,520 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- New Preston is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.