Noank, CT Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
220 ft 70 m170 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m83 ft 25 m28 ft 8 m0 ft 0 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
Noank sits at about 52 ft (16 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
52 ft 16 m
most residents: 12–140 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Palmer Cove
Highest
222 ft 68 m
on Fort Hill
Average
65 ft 20 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Noank spans about 220 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 | 52 ft16 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Fort Hill | 222 ft68 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Palmer Cove | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Noank | 24 ft7 m |
| Airport (WST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi east of the CDP boundary | 81 ft25 m |
| Average of all land | 65 ft20 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in New London County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 1,654 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,085 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3279° N, 71.9906° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Westerly State (WST) 81 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 06340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hopkinton, RI130 ft
- Charlestown, RI93 ft
- Westerly, RI65 ft
- Ashaway, RI65 ft
- Bradford, RI60 ft
- Noank52 ft
- Fishers Island, NY20 ft
- Watch Hill, RI14 ft
- Weekapaug, RI13 ft
- Quonochontaug, RI12 ft
- Misquamicut, RI11 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut297th highest of 333
- Towns in New London County28th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fort Hill, New London County222 ft
- Pequot Hill200 ft
- Shack Hill180 ft
- Hazelnut Hill140 ft
- Pine Hill, New London County28 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).
- 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, −4 ft at 41.3310° N, 71.9857° 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: 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.
- Noank is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.