Charlton, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m920 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m700 ft 215 m550 ft 170 m480 ft 145 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
Charlton sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 630–910 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the east side
Highest
1,073 ft 327 m
on Little Mugget Hill
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside town boundaries
Charlton spans about 590 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Little Mugget Hill | 1,073 ft327 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Charlton | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (ORH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 1,009 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 13,606 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.2 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 323 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1356° N, 71.9701° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Quinebaug River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Worcester Regional (ORH) 1,009 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01507
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Leicester890 ft
- Spencer860 ft
- Charlton750 ft
- Sturbridge690 ft
- Fiskdale670 ft
- East Brookfield650 ft
- Auburn580 ft
- Southbridge Town540 ft
- Dudley530 ft
- Oxford520 ft
- Webster490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts84th highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County22nd highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Beacon Hill, Worcester County870 ft
- Austin Hill, Worcester County800 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.