Salem, CT Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

600 ft 185 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m320 ft 95 m200 ft 60 m140 ft 45 m

Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Salem sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

430 ft 130 m

most residents: 320–520 ft

Lowest

140 ft 45 m

on the south side

Highest

600 ft 185 m

on the northeast side

Average

390 ft 120 m

all land inside town boundaries

Salem spans about 460 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	430 ft130 m
Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side	600 ft185 m
Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side	140 ft45 m
Town center USGS map point for Salem	360 ft110 m
Average of all land	390 ft120 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.0 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in New London County, Connecticut, United States
Population: 4,326 2024 est.
Land area: 28.9 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
Density: 150 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.4904° N, 72.2754° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: New England
Drains to: Long Island Sound
ZIP codes 1: 06420

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Connecticut123rd highest of 333
Towns in New London County3rd highest of 37

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Cockle Hill600 ft
Forsyth Hill590 ft
Maynard Hill, New London County588 ft
Ladd Hill500 ft
Beckwith Hill450 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.