Sherman, CT Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,270 ft 385 m1,010 ft 310 m880 ft 270 m620 ft 190 m360 ft 110 m230 ft 70 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Sherman sits at about 680 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 205 m
most residents: 460–960 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the north side
Highest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the southwest side
Average
710 ft 215 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sherman spans about 1,040 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 | 680 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 230 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sherman | 470 ft145 m |
| Average of all land | 710 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 3,601 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.9 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 164 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5793° N, 73.4957° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Housatonic River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 1
- 06784
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shorehaven, NY830 ft
- Sherman680 ft
- Pawling, NY650 ft
- Patterson, NY620 ft
- Brewster Hill, NY580 ft
- Putnam Lake, NY560 ft
- Beekman, NY490 ft
- Village of Pawling, NY490 ft
- Wingdale, NY460 ft
- Dover, NY460 ft
- Dover Plains, NY380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut46th highest of 333
- Towns in Fairfield County8th highest of 90
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- Ticetonyk Mountain2,503 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 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.