Barnstable Town, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m170 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m86 ft 26 m29 ft 9 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Barnstable Town sits at about 47 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
47 ft 14 m
most residents: 19–86 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Broad Sound
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the northwest side
Average
49 ft 15 m
all land inside city limits
Barnstable Town spans about 230 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 | 47 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Broad Sound | 0 ft0 m |
| Airport (HYA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 54 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 49 ft15 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.7 mi south to north through the middle of Barnstable Town.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 49,831 2024 est.
- Land area
- 59.9 sq mi + 16.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 832 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6618° N, 70.3510° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Cape Cod Gateway (HYA) 54 ft
- ZIP codes 11
- 02601 02630 02632 02635 02637 02647 02648 02655 02668 02672 02675
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Forestdale140 ft
- Mashpee60 ft
- East Sandwich52 ft
- Mashpee Neck50 ft
- Yarmouth Port48 ft
- Barnstable Town47 ft
- Yarmouth25 ft
- South Yarmouth24 ft
- West Yarmouth18 ft
- Popponesset11 ft
- Popponesset Island7 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts362nd highest of 435
- Towns in Barnstable County13th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Shootflying Hill201 ft
- Clay Hill190 ft
- Cobbs Hill150 ft
- Scorton Hill120 ft
- Sunset Hill, Barnstable County79 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, −6 ft at 41.7140° N, 70.2635° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.