Dalton, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,260 ft 690 m1,950 ft 595 m1,790 ft 545 m1,480 ft 450 m1,170 ft 355 m1,010 ft 310 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
Dalton sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,080–1,530 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the west side
Highest
2,259 ft 689 m
on Weston Mountain
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside town boundaries
Dalton spans about 1,250 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Weston Mountain | 2,259 ft689 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dalton | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (PSF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 1,189 ft362 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Greylock, 6.7 mi north of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 3,489 ft1,063 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 6,198 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 285 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4737° N, 73.1662° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Housatonic River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Pittsfield Municipal (PSF) 1,189 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01226
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Windsor1,870 ft
- Savoy1,870 ft
- Peru1,850 ft
- Washington1,620 ft
- Hancock1,610 ft
- Hinsdale1,530 ft
- New Ashford1,470 ft
- Lanesborough1,170 ft
- Dalton1,160 ft
- Cheshire1,070 ft
- Pittsfield1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts30th highest of 435
- Towns in Berkshire County17th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 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.