Sudbury, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m260 ft 80 m160 ft 50 m110 ft 35 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
Sudbury sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 150–240 ft
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the northeast side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sudbury spans about 400 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 110 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sudbury | 190 ft60 m |
| Airport (6B6) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 280 ft85 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 19,805 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.3 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 816 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3834° N, 71.4162° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Minute Man Air Field (6B6) 280 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 01776
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Stow230 ft
- Acton220 ft
- Maynard210 ft
- Lincoln200 ft
- Weston190 ft
- Sudbury180 ft
- Cochituate180 ft
- Framingham180 ft
- Wayland170 ft
- Concord150 ft
- West Concord140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts212th highest of 435
- Towns in Middlesex County26th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 ft
- Goodman Hill410 ft
- Flagstaff Hill, Middlesex County280 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.