Norfolk, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
350 ft 105 m290 ft 90 m260 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m140 ft 45 m120 ft 35 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Norfolk sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 140–270 ft
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the north side
Highest
350 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Average
190 ft 60 m
all land inside town boundaries
Norfolk spans about 230 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 | 200 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 350 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 120 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Norfolk | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (OWD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 49 ft15 m |
| Average of all land | 190 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 11,962 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.9 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 803 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1195° N, 71.3251° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Charles River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Norwood Memorial (OWD) 49 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 02056
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Town290 ft
- Foxborough270 ft
- Sharon260 ft
- Wrentham250 ft
- Holliston240 ft
- Medway230 ft
- Norfolk200 ft
- Walpole190 ft
- Medfield180 ft
- Millis170 ft
- Millis-Clicquot170 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts201st highest of 435
- Towns in Norfolk County11th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Pigeon Hill, Norfolk County400 ft
- Crackrock380 ft
- Indian Hill, Norfolk County360 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.