Holden, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,320 ft 405 m1,110 ft 340 m1,000 ft 305 m780 ft 240 m570 ft 175 m460 ft 140 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
Holden sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 670–870 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the southwest side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside town boundaries
Holden spans about 860 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Holden | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (ORH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi south of the town boundaries | 1,009 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 20,326 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 579 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3518° N, 71.8634° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Nashua River → Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Worcester Regional (ORH) 1,009 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 01520 01522 01612
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paxton1,100 ft
- Rutland1,070 ft
- Princeton940 ft
- Oakham920 ft
- Leicester890 ft
- Holden780 ft
- West Boylston580 ft
- Worcester550 ft
- Sterling540 ft
- Boylston520 ft
- Shrewsbury500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts80th highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County21st highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- Summit2,730 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Christian Hill, Worcester County850 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.