Hampshire County, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,130 ft 650 m1,610 ft 490 m1,350 ft 410 m830 ft 255 m310 ft 95 m53 ft 16 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hampshire County averages about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 53 ft on the south side to 2,131 ft on West Mountain.
Average elevation
750 ft 230 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,131 ft 650 m
on West Mountain
Lowest
53 ft 16 m
on the south side
Hampshire County spans about 2,077 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on West Mountain (NGS survey height) | 2,131 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 53 ft16 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
36 mi west to east through Amherst Town.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 165,399 2024 est.
- Land area
- 527.2 sq mi + 18.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 314 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Berkshire County1,410 ft
- Franklin County880 ft
- Hampshire County750 ft
- Worcester County720 ft
- Hampden County650 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Massachusetts3rd highest of 13
- Counties in the United States1,918th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- West Mountain, Hampshire County2,131 ft
- Bryant Mountain2,080 ft
- Bashan Hill2,040 ft
- Knowles Hill2,020 ft
- Deer Hill, Hampshire County1,990 ft
All 20 towns in Hampshire County by typical elevation
- Plainfield1,600 ft
- Middlefield1,440 ft
- Worthington1,390 ft
- Goshen1,360 ft
- Cummington1,280 ft
- Chesterfield1,240 ft
- Westhampton780 ft
- Huntington720 ft
- Pelham680 ft
- Williamsburg600 ft
- Ware480 ft
- Belchertown480 ft
- Southampton280 ft
- Granby270 ft
- Amherst Town230 ft
- Northampton210 ft
- South Hadley200 ft
- Easthampton190 ft
- Hadley160 ft
- Hatfield140 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.