Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m75 ft 23 m21 ft 6 m−6 ft −2 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
Manchester-by-the-Sea sits at about 50 ft (15 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
50 ft 15 m
most residents: 18–130 ft
Lowest
−6 ft −2 m
on the south side
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on Wyman Hill
Average
59 ft 18 m
all land inside town boundaries
Manchester-by-the-Sea spans about 216 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 | 50 ft15 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Wyman Hill | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | −6 ft−2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Manchester-by-the-Sea | 18 ft5 m |
| Airport (BVY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi west of the town boundaries | 107 ft33 m |
| Average of all land | 59 ft18 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 5,467 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.2 sq mi + 9.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 592 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5779° N, 70.7689° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Beverly Regional (BVY) 107 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01944
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Peabody83 ft
- Wenham64 ft
- Gloucester55 ft
- Danvers52 ft
- Manchester-by-the-Sea50 ft
- Hamilton49 ft
- Beverly48 ft
- Essex44 ft
- Ipswich43 ft
- Marblehead42 ft
- Salem27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts355th highest of 435
- Towns in Essex County23rd highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Beaverdam Hill220 ft
- Christian Hill, Essex County180 ft
- Eagle Hill, Essex County100 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.