Norwell, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
240 ft 75 m180 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m90 ft 27 m30 ft 9 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Norwell sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 35 m
most residents: 47–140 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
240 ft 75 m
on Judges Hill
Average
100 ft 30 m
all land inside town boundaries
Norwell spans about 240 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 | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Judges Hill | 240 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Norwell | 78 ft24 m |
| Airport (GHG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 100 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 11,477 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 548 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1618° N, 70.7939° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Marshfield Municipal - George Harlow Field (GHG) 9 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 02061
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rockland120 ft
- Norwell110 ft
- Marshfield Hills100 ft
- Hanover86 ft
- Pembroke79 ft
- Hingham57 ft
- North Scituate56 ft
- North Pembroke54 ft
- Cohasset51 ft
- Scituate43 ft
- Marshfield40 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts268th highest of 435
- Towns in Plymouth County5th highest of 45
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Judges Hill, Plymouth County240 ft
- Black Pond Hill200 ft
- Cuffey Hill190 ft
- Buttonwood Hill150 ft
- Bald Hill, Plymouth County130 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).
- 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, −3 ft at 42.1640° N, 70.7537° 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.