Pawcatuck, CT Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Pawcatuck, Connecticut, shaded from 2 ft near the middle to 215 ft on Hinkley Hill
Elevation
220 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m82 ft 25 m29 ft 9 m2 ft 1 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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

Pawcatuck sits at about 43 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
43 ft 13 m
most residents: 22–140 ft
Lowest
2 ft 1 m
near the middle
Highest
215 ft 66 m
on Hinkley Hill
Average
77 ft 23 m
all land inside the CDP boundary

Pawcatuck spans about 218 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
43 ft13 m
Highest point
Inside the CDP boundary, on Hinkley Hill
215 ft66 m
Lowest point
Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle
2 ft1 m
Town center
USGS map point for Pawcatuck
9 ft3 m
Airport (WST)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi southeast of the CDP boundary
81 ft25 m
Average of all land77 ft23 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.4 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Pawcatuck, Connecticut, shaded from 2 ft near the middle to 215 ft on Hinkley Hill
CDP boundary (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 10 ft (3 m).
Location
Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in New London County, Connecticut, United States
Population
5,433 2020 Census
Land area
3.4 sq mi
Density
1,592 per sq mi
Coordinates
41.3773° N, 71.8337° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
New England
Drains to
Long Island Sound
Airport
Westerly State (WST) 81 ft
ZIP codes 1
06379
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Hopkinton, RI130 ft
  2. Charlestown, RI93 ft
  3. Carolina, RI87 ft
  4. Westerly, RI65 ft
  5. Ashaway, RI65 ft
  6. Bradford, RI60 ft
  7. Pawcatuck43 ft
  8. Watch Hill, RI14 ft
  9. Weekapaug, RI13 ft
  10. Quonochontaug, RI12 ft
  11. Misquamicut, RI11 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Jeremy Hill330 ft
  • Merritt Hill250 ft
  • Hinkley Hill215 ft
  • Staunton Hill94 ft
  • Wequetequock Hill69 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, 0 ft at 41.3804° N, 71.8324° 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.
  • Pawcatuck 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.