Petersham, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,120 ft 340 m1,020 ft 310 m820 ft 250 m620 ft 190 m520 ft 160 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Petersham sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
950 ft 290 m
most residents: 760–1,110 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the west side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the north side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside town boundaries
Petersham spans about 790 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 | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Petersham | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Airport (ORE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 556 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 1,246 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.2 sq mi + 14.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 23 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4876° N, 72.1870° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Orange Municipal (ORE) 556 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01366
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Phillipston1,110 ft
- Gardner1,080 ft
- Templeton1,000 ft
- Hubbardston990 ft
- Petersham950 ft
- Baldwinville920 ft
- Barre850 ft
- New Salem830 ft
- Hardwick700 ft
- Athol630 ft
- Orange560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts57th highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County12th highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 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.