Middlesex County, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,190 ft 365 m990 ft 300 m600 ft 180 m200 ft 60 m0 ft 0 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
Middlesex County averages about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Boston Harbor to 1,590 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
230 ft 70 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Boston Harbor
Middlesex County spans about 1,590 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Boston Harbor | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
27 mi west to east through Cambridge.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 1,668,956 2024 est.
- Land area
- 817.9 sq mi + 29.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,041 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Worcester County720 ft
- Hillsborough County, NH660 ft
- Middlesex County230 ft
- Norfolk County190 ft
- Essex County89 ft
- Suffolk County58 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Massachusetts6th highest of 13
- Counties in the United States2,733rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Blood Hill, Middlesex County1,510 ft
- Jones Hill1,300 ft
- Juniper Hill, Middlesex County920 ft
- Rattlesnake Hill, Middlesex County830 ft
- Barker Hill, Middlesex County750 ft
All 61 towns in Middlesex County by typical elevation
- Ashby870 ft
- Hopkinton400 ft
- Marlborough390 ft
- Townsend330 ft
- Devens partly290 ft
- Shirley280 ft
- Littleton Common280 ft
- Boxborough280 ft
- Groton270 ft
- Ayer270 ft
- Ashland260 ft
- Littleton260 ft
- Hudson250 ft
- Pepperell250 ft
- Holliston240 ft
- Stow230 ft
- Westford220 ft
- Acton220 ft
- Lexington220 ft
- Maynard210 ft
- East Pepperell210 ft
- Carlisle210 ft
- Dunstable210 ft
- Lincoln200 ft
- Weston190 ft
- Tyngsborough180 ft
- Sudbury180 ft
- Cochituate180 ft
- Sherborn180 ft
- Framingham180 ft
- Natick170 ft
- Wayland170 ft
- Hanscom AFB150 ft
- Stoneham150 ft
- Chelmsford150 ft
- Burlington150 ft
- Dracut150 ft
- Concord150 ft
- West Concord140 ft
- Billerica140 ft
- Bedford140 ft
- Pinehurst120 ft
- Lowell120 ft
- Newton120 ft
- Tewksbury120 ft
- Reading110 ft
- Woburn110 ft
- Arlington100 ft
- Wakefield99 ft
- North Reading98 ft
- Wilmington96 ft
- Waltham86 ft
- Melrose78 ft
- Belmont72 ft
- Winchester72 ft
- Everett53 ft
- Watertown51 ft
- Malden39 ft
- Somerville38 ft
- Medford22 ft
- Cambridge14 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. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, −44 ft at 42.5896° N, 71.1424° 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: 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.