Hillsborough, NH Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, shaded from 540 ft on the northeast side to 1,780 ft on Thompson Hill
Elevation
1,780 ft 540 m1,470 ft 450 m1,310 ft 400 m1,000 ft 305 m690 ft 210 m540 ft 165 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.
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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

Hillsborough sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 600–1,020 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,780 ft 540 m
on Thompson Hill
Average
940 ft 285 m
all land inside town boundaries

Hillsborough spans about 1,240 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
670 ft205 m
Highest point
Inside town boundaries, on Thompson Hill
1,780 ft540 m
Lowest point
Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side
540 ft165 m
Airport (8B1)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi south of the town boundaries
600 ft183 m
Average of all land940 ft285 m

Elevation profile, south to north

7.1 mi south to north through the middle of Hillsborough.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, shaded from 540 ft on the northeast side to 1,780 ft on Thompson Hill
Town boundaries (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 100 ft (30 m).
Location
Town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
Population
6,089 2024 est.
Land area
43.7 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
Density
139 per sq mi
Coordinates
43.1280° N, 71.9170° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
New England
Drains to
Contoocook River → Merrimack River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Hawthorne-Feather Airpark (8B1) 600 ft
ZIP codes 2
03244 03440
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Washington1,490 ft
  2. Stoddard1,410 ft
  3. Windsor1,240 ft
  4. Deering920 ft
  5. Francestown870 ft
  6. Bradford820 ft
  7. Antrim790 ft
  8. Bennington730 ft
  9. Hillsborough670 ft
  10. Weare610 ft
  11. Henniker470 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Monadnock Mountain3,170 ft
  • Mount Kearsarge2,930 ft
  • Summit2,730 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.