New Bedford, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 55 m140 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m70 ft 21 m23 ft 7 m0 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Bedford sits at about 70 ft (21 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
70 ft 21 m
most residents: 14–120 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
near the middle
Highest
190 ft 55 m
on the northwest side
Average
76 ft 23 m
all land inside city limits
New Bedford spans about 190 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 | 70 ft21 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 190 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Bedford | 99 ft30 m |
| Airport (EWB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 79 ft24 m |
| Average of all land | 76 ft23 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 101,318 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.0 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,065 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6362° N, 70.9342° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- New Bedford Regional (EWB) 79 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 02740 02744 02745 02746 02747
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Westport130 ft
- Smith Mills130 ft
- North Westport130 ft
- Dartmouth90 ft
- Acushnet71 ft
- New Bedford70 ft
- Bliss Corner65 ft
- Acushnet Center58 ft
- Mattapoisett Center29 ft
- Mattapoisett26 ft
- Fairhaven23 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts317th highest of 435
- Towns in Bristol County19th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Crapo Hill260 ft
- Ridge Hill, Bristol County220 ft
- Braley Hill150 ft
- Mendall Hill140 ft
- Tarkiln Hill, Bristol County130 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 41.6254° N, 70.9110° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.