Scituate, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
200 ft 60 m150 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m73 ft 22 m24 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Scituate sits at about 43 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
43 ft 13 m
most residents: 8–110 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Massachusetts Bay
Highest
200 ft 60 m
on the west side
Average
52 ft 16 m
all land inside town boundaries
Scituate spans about 200 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 | 43 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 200 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Massachusetts Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scituate | 28 ft9 m |
| Airport (GHG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi south of the town boundaries | 9 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 52 ft16 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 19,598 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.2 sq mi + 14.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,138 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1959° N, 70.7259° 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 2
- 02047 02066
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Norwell110 ft
- Marshfield Hills100 ft
- Hanover86 ft
- Hingham57 ft
- North Scituate56 ft
- North Pembroke54 ft
- Cohasset51 ft
- Scituate43 ft
- Marshfield40 ft
- Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock16 ft
- Cedar Crest5 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts369th highest of 435
- Towns in Plymouth County32nd highest of 45
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Booth Hill130 ft
- Doctors Hill120 ft
- Brushy Hill92 ft
- Coleman Hills81 ft
- Hoop Pole Hill63 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, −7 ft at 42.2574° N, 70.7699° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.