Winchester, CT Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,490 ft 455 m1,260 ft 385 m1,140 ft 350 m910 ft 280 m680 ft 205 m560 ft 170 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
Winchester sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 710–1,140 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,490 ft 455 m
on the west side
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside town boundaries
Winchester spans about 930 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,490 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Winchester.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States
- Population
- 10,309 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.5 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 317 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9218° N, 73.0734° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Farmington River → Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 2
- 06098 06790
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Otis, MA1,490 ft
- Sandisfield, MA1,470 ft
- Tolland, MA1,370 ft
- Monterey, MA1,340 ft
- Blandford, MA1,320 ft
- New Marlborough, MA1,030 ft
- Granville, MA1,030 ft
- Winchester860 ft
- Russell, MA700 ft
- Sheffield, MA680 ft
- Southwick, MA260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Connecticut18th highest of 333
- Towns in Litchfield County15th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 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.