Waterbury, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 280 m750 ft 225 m650 ft 200 m470 ft 145 m290 ft 90 m200 ft 60 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Waterbury sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 350–660 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the south side
Highest
930 ft 280 m
on the northeast side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Waterbury spans about 730 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 930 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterbury | 270 ft85 m |
| Airport (OXC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi southwest of the city limits | 730 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 115,908 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,059 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5582° N, 73.0515° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Waterbury-Oxford (OXC) 730 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 06702 06704 06705 06706 06708 06710
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pawling, NY650 ft
- Patterson, NY620 ft
- Brewster Hill, NY580 ft
- Putnam Lake, NY560 ft
- Peach Lake, NY550 ft
- Southeast, NY540 ft
- Waterbury490 ft
- Village of Pawling, NY490 ft
- Wingdale, NY460 ft
- Dover, NY460 ft
- Dover Plains, NY380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut102nd highest of 333
- Towns in New Haven County6th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Everett2,608 ft
- South Beacon Mountain1,600 ft
- Bucks Hill, New Haven County930 ft
- Nichols Hill800 ft
- Bald Hill, New Haven County680 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.