Cheshire, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,580 ft 785 m2,170 ft 660 m1,960 ft 595 m1,540 ft 470 m1,130 ft 345 m920 ft 280 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
Cheshire sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 960–1,710 ft
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,580 ft 785 m
at the foot of the Greylock Range
Average
1,470 ft 450 m
all land inside town boundaries
Cheshire spans about 1,660 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Greylock Range | 2,580 ft785 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 920 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cheshire | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (AQW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi north of the town boundaries | 654 ft199 m |
| Average of all land | 1,470 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 3,190 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.8 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 119 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5620° N, 73.1629° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Hoosic River → Hudson River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harriman-And-West (AQW) 654 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01225
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Windsor1,870 ft
- Savoy1,870 ft
- Hancock1,610 ft
- Hinsdale1,530 ft
- New Ashford1,470 ft
- Lanesborough1,170 ft
- Dalton1,160 ft
- Cheshire1,070 ft
- Pittsfield1,040 ft
- Adams860 ft
- North Adams790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts38th highest of 435
- Towns in Berkshire County20th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Glastenbury Mountain3,750 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Anthony2,340 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.