Athol, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,090 ft 330 m990 ft 300 m790 ft 240 m600 ft 185 m500 ft 155 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
Athol sits at about 630 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 195 m
most residents: 530–900 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on Pratt Hill
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside town boundaries
Athol spans about 780 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 | 630 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Pratt Hill | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Athol | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (ORE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 556 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 12,105 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.3 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 375 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5959° N, 72.2267° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Millers River → Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Orange Municipal (ORE) 556 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 01331 01368
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Phillipston1,110 ft
- Wendell1,010 ft
- Royalston1,000 ft
- Templeton1,000 ft
- Petersham950 ft
- Warwick940 ft
- Baldwinville920 ft
- New Salem830 ft
- Athol630 ft
- Orange560 ft
- Erving480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts98th highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County30th highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 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.