Adams, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,490 ft 1,065 m2,800 ft 850 m2,450 ft 745 m1,760 ft 535 m1,060 ft 325 m720 ft 220 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Adams sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 760–1,060 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the north side
Highest
3,489 ft 1,063 m
on Mount Greylock
Average
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside town boundaries
Adams spans about 2,770 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 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Mount Greylock | 3,489 ft1,063 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adams | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (AQW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 654 ft199 m |
| Average of all land | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 7,992 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 349 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6242° N, 73.1176° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hoosic River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harriman-And-West (AQW) 654 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01220
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Florida1,950 ft
- Windsor1,870 ft
- Savoy1,870 ft
- Stamford, VT1,520 ft
- New Ashford1,470 ft
- Lanesborough1,170 ft
- Clarksburg1,080 ft
- Cheshire1,070 ft
- Adams860 ft
- North Adams790 ft
- Williamstown690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts70th highest of 435
- Towns in Berkshire County28th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Anthony2,340 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).
- 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, 560 ft at 42.6460° N, 73.1196° 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.
- 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.