Spencer, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m800 ft 245 m680 ft 205 m620 ft 190 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
Spencer sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 710–950 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on Moose Hill
Average
840 ft 260 m
all land inside town boundaries
Spencer spans about 480 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Moose Hill | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Spencer | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (ORH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi east of the town boundaries | 1,009 ft308 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 12,090 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.9 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 368 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2440° N, 71.9923° 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
- 01562
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paxton1,100 ft
- Oakham920 ft
- Leicester890 ft
- New Braintree880 ft
- North Brookfield870 ft
- Spencer860 ft
- Charlton750 ft
- Brookfield730 ft
- West Brookfield670 ft
- East Brookfield650 ft
- Auburn580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts71st highest of 435
- Towns in Worcester County19th highest of 69
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Bare Hill, Worcester County950 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, 620 ft at 42.2299° N, 72.0260° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.