South Windham, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m520 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m330 ft 100 m200 ft 60 m140 ft 45 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Windham sits at about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
260 ft 80 m
most residents: 170–400 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the northwest side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on Obwebetuck Hill
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Windham spans about 500 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 | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on Obwebetuck Hill | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Windham | 160 ft50 m |
| Airport (IJD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 246 ft75 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Windham County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 1,383 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.1 sq mi
- Density
- 444 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6795° N, 72.1704° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Windham (IJD) 246 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 06226 06266
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Holland, MA750 ft
- Foster, RI550 ft
- Greene, RI500 ft
- Foster Center, RI500 ft
- Clayville, RI470 ft
- West Greenwich, RI390 ft
- Coventry, RI260 ft
- South Windham260 ft
- Hopkinton, RI130 ft
- Hope Valley, RI120 ft
- Ashaway, RI65 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut184th highest of 333
- Towns in Windham County24th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gates Hill648 ft
- Obwebetuck Hill640 ft
- Hosmer Mountain540 ft
- Bush Hill, New London County540 ft
- Miller Hill360 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, 140 ft at 41.6896° N, 72.1787° 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.
- South Windham 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.