Belchertown, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m880 ft 270 m760 ft 235 m530 ft 160 m290 ft 90 m170 ft 55 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Belchertown sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 320–670 ft
Lowest
170 ft 55 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the north side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside town boundaries
Belchertown spans about 950 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 170 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Belchertown | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (CEF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 241 ft73 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 15,372 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.6 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 292 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2770° N, 72.4009° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Westover Arb/Metro (CEF) 241 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01007
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pelham680 ft
- West Warren550 ft
- Ware480 ft
- Belchertown480 ft
- Palmer Town390 ft
- Granby270 ft
- Wilbraham260 ft
- Ludlow240 ft
- Amherst Town230 ft
- South Hadley200 ft
- Hadley160 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts119th highest of 435
- Towns in Hampshire County12th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 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.