Bethlehem, NH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,740 ft 1,445 m3,770 ft 1,150 m3,280 ft 1,000 m2,310 ft 705 m1,340 ft 410 m850 ft 260 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Bethlehem sits at about 1,360 ft (415 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,360 ft 415 m
most residents: 1,060–1,620 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the northwest side
Highest
4,740 ft 1,445 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,930 ft 585 m
all land inside town boundaries
Bethlehem spans about 3,890 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 | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 4,740 ft1,445 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bethlehem | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Airport (HIE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 1,072 ft327 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft585 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Washington, 6.8 mi east of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 6,287 ft1,916 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
- Population
- 2,554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 90.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 28 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2803° N, 71.6881° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Ammonoosuc River → Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Mount Washington Regional (HIE) 1,072 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 03574
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carroll1,440 ft
- Bethlehem1,360 ft
- Sugar Hill1,310 ft
- Easton1,230 ft
- Franconia1,130 ft
- Lyman1,090 ft
- Whitefield1,050 ft
- Dalton1,020 ft
- Littleton920 ft
- Gilman, VT900 ft
- Lisbon770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Hampshire19th highest of 260
- Towns in Grafton County6th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Lafayette5,242 ft
- South Twin Mountain4,890 ft
- Mount Carrigain4,683 ft
- Mount Field4,320 ft
- Cherry Mountain3,550 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.