Prospect, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m740 ft 225 m650 ft 200 m480 ft 145 m310 ft 95 m230 ft 70 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
Prospect sits at about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 220 m
most residents: 600–820 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the northeast side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on Turkey Hill
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside town boundaries
Prospect spans about 680 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Turkey Hill | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prospect | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (MMK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi east of the town boundaries | 103 ft31 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 9,573 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 674 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5023° N, 72.9787° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Meriden Markham Municipal (MMK) 103 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 06712
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Prospect730 ft
- Pawling, NY650 ft
- Patterson, NY620 ft
- Brewster Hill, NY580 ft
- Putnam Lake, NY560 ft
- Peach Lake, NY550 ft
- Southeast, NY540 ft
- North Salem, NY490 ft
- Village of Pawling, NY490 ft
- Wingdale, NY460 ft
- Dover, NY460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut34th highest of 333
- Towns in New Haven County2nd highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Prospect Hill, New Haven County880 ft
- Prospect Mountain810 ft
- Bluff Head650 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.