Amesbury, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
330 ft 100 m250 ft 75 m210 ft 65 m120 ft 40 m41 ft 13 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Amesbury sits at about 90 ft (27 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
90 ft 27 m
most residents: 31–140 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the southeast side
Highest
330 ft 100 m
on Powwow Hill
Average
93 ft 28 m
all land inside city limits
Amesbury spans about 330 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 | 90 ft27 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Powwow Hill | 330 ft100 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Amesbury | 48 ft15 m |
| Average of all land | 93 ft28 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 17,617 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.3 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,433 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8584° N, 70.9301° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Newton, NH150 ft
- Kensington, NH130 ft
- South Hampton, NH120 ft
- Merrimac120 ft
- Amesbury90 ft
- West Newbury81 ft
- Newburyport51 ft
- Hampton Falls, NH48 ft
- Seabrook, NH43 ft
- Salisbury10 ft
- Seabrook Beach, NH8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts289th highest of 435
- Towns in Essex County10th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Kearsarge2,930 ft
- Belknap Mountain2,382 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Copple Crown Mountain1,870 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).
- 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, −4 ft at 42.8351° N, 70.9076° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.