Lynn, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
280 ft 85 m210 ft 65 m180 ft 55 m110 ft 30 m35 ft 11 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lynn sits at about 42 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
42 ft 13 m
most residents: 16–120 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Lynn Harbor
Highest
280 ft 85 m
on Burrill Hill
Average
86 ft 26 m
all land inside city limits
Lynn spans about 280 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 | 42 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Burrill Hill | 280 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Lynn Harbor | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lynn | 34 ft11 m |
| Airport (BOS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi south of the city limits | 19 ft6 m |
| Average of all land | 86 ft26 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 103,489 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.7 sq mi + 2.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 9,637 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4668° N, 70.9495° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS) 19 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 01901 01902 01904 01905 01906
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Peabody83 ft
- Melrose78 ft
- Saugus68 ft
- Swampscott50 ft
- Marblehead42 ft
- Lynn42 ft
- Malden39 ft
- Nahant32 ft
- Salem27 ft
- Revere25 ft
- Winthrop Town19 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts373rd highest of 435
- Towns in Essex County30th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Burrill Hill280 ft
- Dog Hill280 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, −2 ft at 42.4593° N, 70.9849° 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, 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.