Fairhaven, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
110 ft 35 m80 ft 24 m67 ft 20 m40 ft 12 m13 ft 4 m0 ft 0 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
Fairhaven sits at about 23 ft (7 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
23 ft 7 m
most residents: 7–50 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Apponagansett River
Highest
110 ft 30 m
on the northeast side
Average
32 ft 10 m
all land inside town boundaries
Fairhaven spans about 110 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 | 23 ft7 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 110 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Apponagansett River | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairhaven | 14 ft4 m |
| Airport (EWB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 79 ft24 m |
| Average of all land | 32 ft10 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 16,005 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.4 sq mi + 1.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,293 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6376° N, 70.9036° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New Bedford Regional (EWB) 79 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 02719
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Smith Mills130 ft
- Dartmouth90 ft
- Acushnet71 ft
- New Bedford70 ft
- Bliss Corner65 ft
- Acushnet Center58 ft
- Rochester57 ft
- Mattapoisett Center29 ft
- Mattapoisett26 ft
- Fairhaven23 ft
- Marion20 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts409th highest of 435
- Towns in Bristol County28th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mendall Hill140 ft
- Tinkham Hill, Plymouth County140 ft
- Tarkiln Hill, Bristol County130 ft
- Vaughn Hill110 ft
- Round Hill, Bristol County46 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −7 ft at 41.5829° N, 70.8257° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; 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.