Townsend, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m630 ft 190 m560 ft 170 m440 ft 135 m310 ft 95 m250 ft 75 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
Townsend sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 280–520 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the southeast side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Average
420 ft 125 m
all land inside town boundaries
Townsend spans about 500 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Townsend | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (FIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi south of the town boundaries | 345 ft105 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 9,220 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 282 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.6668° N, 71.7051° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Fitchburg Municipal (FIT) 345 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 01469 01474
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ashby870 ft
- Greenville, NH830 ft
- Mason, NH610 ft
- Fitchburg560 ft
- Lunenburg440 ft
- Brookline, NH400 ft
- Townsend330 ft
- Hollis, NH290 ft
- Groton270 ft
- Pepperell250 ft
- East Pepperell210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts143rd highest of 435
- Towns in Middlesex County4th highest of 60
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- Mount Kearsarge2,930 ft
- Summit2,730 ft
- North Pack Monadnock Mountain2,260 ft
- Crotched Mountain2,063 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.