North Canaan, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,490 ft 455 m1,340 ft 410 m1,060 ft 325 m770 ft 235 m630 ft 195 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
North Canaan sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–870 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the south side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside town boundaries
North Canaan spans about 1,140 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 630 ft195 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.3 mi south to north through the middle of North Canaan.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 3,220 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 166 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0250° N, 73.3118° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Housatonic River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 2
- 06018 06024
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Washington, MA1,660 ft
- Sandisfield, MA1,470 ft
- Monterey, MA1,340 ft
- New Marlborough, MA1,030 ft
- Egremont, MA830 ft
- North East, NY790 ft
- Great Barrington, MA780 ft
- Millerton, NY730 ft
- North Canaan690 ft
- Sheffield, MA680 ft
- Copake Falls, NY650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut41st highest of 333
- Towns in Litchfield County27th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blackhead3,930 ft
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 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).
- 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, 390 ft at 42.0132° N, 73.3168° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.