Paxton, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 425 m1,250 ft 380 m1,180 ft 360 m1,030 ft 315 m880 ft 270 m810 ft 245 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
Paxton sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 980–1,220 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the west side
Highest
1,396 ft 426 m
on Asnebumskit Hill
Average
1,060 ft 320 m
all land inside town boundaries
Paxton spans about 590 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Asnebumskit Hill | 1,396 ft426 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paxton | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (ORH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 1,009 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 5,043 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.7 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 343 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3112° N, 71.9281° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Worcester Regional (ORH) 1,009 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01612
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paxton1,100 ft
- Rutland1,070 ft
- Oakham920 ft
- Leicester890 ft
- North Brookfield870 ft
- Spencer860 ft
- Holden780 ft
- East Brookfield650 ft
- Auburn580 ft
- West Boylston580 ft
- Worcester550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts34th highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County3rd highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Asnebumskit Hill1,396 ft
- Black Hill1,140 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.