Wendell, MA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,050 ft 320 m920 ft 280 m670 ft 205 m420 ft 130 m300 ft 90 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
Wendell sits at about 1,010 ft (310 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 310 m
most residents: 610–1,090 ft
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on Orcutt Hill
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside town boundaries
Wendell spans about 1,000 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 | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Orcutt Hill | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 300 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wendell | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Airport (ORE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi east of the town boundaries | 556 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States
- Population
- 916 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.5481° N, 72.3968° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Orange Municipal (ORE) 556 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 01349 01379 01380
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wendell1,010 ft
- Shutesbury1,000 ft
- New Salem830 ft
- Athol630 ft
- Orange560 ft
- Leverett490 ft
- Erving480 ft
- Gill380 ft
- Millers Falls290 ft
- Montague270 ft
- Turners Falls260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Massachusetts44th highest of 435
- Towns in Franklin County6th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Snow3,590 ft
- Mount Greylock3,489 ft
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 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.