Bow, NH Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Bow, New Hampshire, shaded from 190 ft on the east side to 920 ft on Picked Hill
Elevation
920 ft 280 m740 ft 225 m640 ft 195 m460 ft 140 m280 ft 85 m190 ft 60 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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

Bow sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 340–720 ft
Lowest
190 ft 60 m
on the east side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on Picked Hill
Average
500 ft 150 m
all land inside town boundaries

Bow spans about 730 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
510 ft155 m
Highest point
Inside town boundaries, on Picked Hill
920 ft280 m
Lowest point
Inside town boundaries, on the east side
190 ft60 m
Airport (MHT)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the town boundaries
266 ft81 m
Average of all land500 ft150 m

Elevation profile, west to east

6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Bow.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Bow, New Hampshire, shaded from 190 ft on the east side to 920 ft on Picked Hill
Town boundaries (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 40 ft (12 m).
Location
Town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States
Population
8,397 2024 est.
Land area
28.2 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
Density
298 per sq mi
Coordinates
43.1332° N, 71.5372° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
New England
Drains to
Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Manchester Boston Regional (MHT) 266 ft
ZIP codes 1
03304
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Dunbarton590 ft
  2. Bow510 ft
  3. Hopkinton440 ft
  4. South Hooksett380 ft
  5. Hooksett380 ft
  6. Goffstown350 ft
  7. Pembroke350 ft
  8. Concord340 ft
  9. Allenstown340 ft
  10. Suncook330 ft
  11. Pinardville280 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Mount Kearsarge2,930 ft
  • Belknap Mountain2,382 ft
  • Ragged Mountain2,280 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.