Leicester, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,030 ft 315 m950 ft 290 m800 ft 245 m640 ft 195 m560 ft 170 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
Leicester sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 750–1,000 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the east side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on Elliott Hill
Average
910 ft 275 m
all land inside town boundaries
Leicester spans about 620 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Elliott Hill | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Leicester | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (ORH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 1,009 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 11,224 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.3 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 483 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2459° N, 71.9087° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Worcester Regional (ORH) 1,009 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 01524 01542 01611
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paxton1,100 ft
- Rutland1,070 ft
- Leicester890 ft
- North Brookfield870 ft
- Spencer860 ft
- Holden780 ft
- Charlton750 ft
- East Brookfield650 ft
- Auburn580 ft
- Worcester550 ft
- Millbury440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts66th highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County16th highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Carey Hill, Worcester County1,080 ft
- Ballard Hill, Worcester County990 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.