Swansea, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
190 ft 60 m140 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m71 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
Swansea sits at about 45 ft (14 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
45 ft 14 m
most residents: 14–130 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Mount Hope Bay
Highest
190 ft 60 m
on the east side
Average
67 ft 21 m
all land inside town boundaries
Swansea spans about 190 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 | 45 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 190 ft60 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Mount Hope Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Swansea | 36 ft11 m |
| Airport (PVD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi west of the town boundaries | 54 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 67 ft21 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 17,537 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.7 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 773 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7482° N, 71.1898° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Rhode Island Tf Green International (PVD) 54 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 02777
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tiverton, RI180 ft
- Fall River180 ft
- North Westport130 ft
- Rehoboth100 ft
- Dighton81 ft
- Somerset73 ft
- Bristol, RI61 ft
- Swansea45 ft
- Ocean Grove21 ft
- Warren, RI21 ft
- Barrington, RI17 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts365th highest of 435
- Towns in Bristol County27th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Long Hill, Bristol County200 ft
- Hunters Hill190 ft
- Margarets Rock75 ft
- Devils Rock75 ft
- Fox Hill, Bristol County74 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, −2 ft at 41.7282° N, 71.2199° 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.