Ware, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m940 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m650 ft 200 m460 ft 140 m360 ft 110 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
Ware sits at about 480 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 150 m
most residents: 400–670 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ware spans about 770 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 | 480 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ware | 430 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 10,142 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.4 sq mi + 5.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 295 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.2598° N, 72.2398° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 1
- 01082
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Braintree880 ft
- North Brookfield870 ft
- Brimfield780 ft
- Brookfield730 ft
- Warren730 ft
- Hardwick700 ft
- West Brookfield670 ft
- West Warren550 ft
- Ware480 ft
- Belchertown480 ft
- Palmer Town390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts118th highest of 435
- Towns in Hampshire County11th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- Beoadic Mountain2,610 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).
- 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, 360 ft at 42.2332° N, 72.3074° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.