Cheshire County, NH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,170 ft 965 m2,420 ft 740 m2,050 ft 625 m1,300 ft 395 m550 ft 170 m180 ft 55 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cheshire County averages about 1,040 ft (320 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 180 ft on the southwest side to 3,170 ft on Monadnock Mountain.
Average elevation
1,040 ft 320 m
all land inside the county
Highest
3,170 ft 966 m
on Monadnock Mountain
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the southwest side
Cheshire County spans about 2,990 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Monadnock Mountain (NGS survey height) | 3,170 ft966 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
26 mi west to east through Keene.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New Hampshire, United States
- Population
- 78,078 2024 est.
- Land area
- 706.7 sq mi + 22.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 110 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Long Island Sound 83%, Atlantic Ocean 17%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Windham County, VT1,370 ft
- Sullivan County1,190 ft
- Cheshire County1,040 ft
- Franklin County, MA880 ft
- Worcester County, MA720 ft
- Hillsborough County660 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New Hampshire5th highest of 10
- Counties in the United States1,333rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
- Osgood Hill, Cheshire County2,240 ft
- Pitcher Mountain2,162 ft
- Hodgeman Hill2,060 ft
- Jackson Hill2,060 ft
All 25 towns in Cheshire County by typical elevation
- Stoddard1,410 ft
- Nelson1,410 ft
- Marlow1,360 ft
- Harrisville1,310 ft
- Sullivan1,300 ft
- Dublin1,240 ft
- Roxbury1,200 ft
- Alstead1,170 ft
- Rindge1,110 ft
- Fitzwilliam1,110 ft
- Troy1,100 ft
- Gilsum1,070 ft
- Jaffrey1,040 ft
- Richmond1,030 ft
- Marlborough950 ft
- Chesterfield820 ft
- Surry770 ft
- Westmoreland770 ft
- Swanzey530 ft
- Winchester500 ft
- Keene500 ft
- West Swanzey470 ft
- Walpole460 ft
- Hinsdale350 ft
- North Walpole320 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.