Colrain, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,410 ft 430 m1,210 ft 370 m830 ft 250 m440 ft 135 m240 ft 75 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
Colrain sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 530–1,400 ft
Lowest
240 ft 75 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside town boundaries
Colrain spans about 1,550 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 240 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Colrain | 610 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 1,643 2024 est.
- Land area
- 43.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 38 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6731° N, 72.6968° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 1
- 01340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Heath1,570 ft
- Halifax, VT1,490 ft
- Leyden990 ft
- Colrain980 ft
- Charlemont930 ft
- Buckland910 ft
- Shelburne520 ft
- Bernardston490 ft
- Shelburne Falls460 ft
- Turners Falls260 ft
- Greenfield250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts53rd highest of 435
- Towns in Franklin County9th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stratton Mountain3,940 ft
- Glastenbury Mountain3,750 ft
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.