Shelburne, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,240 ft 375 m1,060 ft 325 m710 ft 215 m350 ft 105 m180 ft 55 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
Shelburne sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 420–1,010 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the south side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on Massaemett Mountain
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside town boundaries
Shelburne spans about 1,410 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Massaemett Mountain | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 180 ft55 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shelburne | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (0B5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi east of the town boundaries | 359 ft109 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 1,874 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.2 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 81 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5898° N, 72.6884° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Turners Falls (0B5) 359 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 01340 01370
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashfield1,340 ft
- Leyden990 ft
- Colrain980 ft
- Buckland910 ft
- Conway780 ft
- Shelburne520 ft
- Shelburne Falls460 ft
- Montague270 ft
- Turners Falls260 ft
- Greenfield250 ft
- Deerfield250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts113th highest of 435
- Towns in Franklin County16th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Glastenbury Mountain3,750 ft
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Berlin Mountain2,800 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 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.