Ashburnham, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,830 ft 560 m1,580 ft 480 m1,450 ft 445 m1,200 ft 365 m950 ft 290 m820 ft 250 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
Ashburnham sits at about 1,110 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,110 ft 340 m
most residents: 980–1,220 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,835 ft 559 m
on Mount Watatic
Average
1,160 ft 350 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ashburnham spans about 1,010 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 | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Mount Watatic | 1,835 ft559 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ashburnham | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Airport (GDM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 954 ft291 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 6,522 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.3 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 170 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6362° N, 71.9079° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Nashua River → Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gardner Municipal (GDM) 954 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 01430 01440
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Ipswich, NH1,150 ft
- Rindge, NH1,110 ft
- Ashburnham1,110 ft
- Gardner1,080 ft
- Westminster1,030 ft
- Winchendon1,010 ft
- South Ashburnham980 ft
- Baldwinville920 ft
- Ashby870 ft
- Fitchburg560 ft
- Lunenburg440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts32nd highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester Countyhighest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- Mount Kearsarge2,930 ft
- Summit2,730 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.