Monterey, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,110 ft 640 m1,810 ft 550 m1,660 ft 505 m1,360 ft 415 m1,060 ft 325 m910 ft 275 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
Monterey sits at about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,120–1,710 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the west side
Highest
2,110 ft 640 m
on Mount Wilcox
Average
1,500 ft 460 m
all land inside town boundaries
Monterey spans about 1,200 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Mount Wilcox | 2,110 ft640 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monterey | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Average of all land | 1,500 ft460 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 1,085 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.4 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1793° N, 73.2121° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Housatonic River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 2
- 01230 01245
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Otis1,490 ft
- Sandisfield1,470 ft
- Tyringham1,370 ft
- Monterey1,340 ft
- New Marlborough1,030 ft
- Lenox Dale1,010 ft
- Lee980 ft
- Stockbridge890 ft
- Great Barrington780 ft
- Housatonic750 ft
- Sheffield680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts24th highest of 435
- Towns in Berkshire County14th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Peak3,650 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 ft
- Mount Everett2,608 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.