Bristol, NH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 550 m1,430 ft 435 m1,240 ft 380 m870 ft 265 m500 ft 155 m310 ft 95 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
Bristol sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 470–920 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the south side
Highest
1,800 ft 550 m
on the northeast side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside town boundaries
Bristol spans about 1,490 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,800 ft550 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bristol | 460 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Cardigan, 5.9 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 3,060 ft935 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States
- Population
- 3,276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.7 sq mi + 5.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 196 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5912° N, 71.7367° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 03222
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Groton1,590 ft
- Grafton1,110 ft
- Danbury970 ft
- Alexandria910 ft
- Hebron750 ft
- Hill740 ft
- Bridgewater740 ft
- New Hampton710 ft
- Sanbornton690 ft
- Bristol610 ft
- Ashland580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Hampshire140th highest of 260
- Towns in Grafton County36th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Cardigan3,060 ft
- Stinson Mountain2,894 ft
- Ragged Mountain2,280 ft
- Plymouth Mountain2,200 ft
- Hersey Mountain2,000 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.