Northumberland, NH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,860 ft 870 m2,360 ft 720 m2,100 ft 640 m1,590 ft 485 m1,090 ft 330 m830 ft 255 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
Northumberland sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 850–1,280 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Highest
2,860 ft 870 m
at the foot of the Pilot Range
Average
1,190 ft 360 m
all land inside town boundaries
Northumberland spans about 2,030 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Pilot Range | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Northumberland | 860 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Nearest peak Mount Cabot, 1.7 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 4,160 ft1,265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States
- Population
- 2,107 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.7 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 59 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5634° N, 71.5587° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- ZIP codes 2
- 03582 03584
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Granby, VT1,790 ft
- Maidstone, VT1,310 ft
- Jefferson1,160 ft
- Lunenburg, VT1,070 ft
- Stark1,040 ft
- Stratford970 ft
- Brunswick, VT970 ft
- Lancaster930 ft
- Northumberland900 ft
- Groveton890 ft
- Guildhall, VT890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Hampshire77th highest of 260
- Towns in Coos County19th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Cabot4,160 ft
- Bunnell Mountain3,720 ft
- Long Mountain3,660 ft
- Muise Mountain3,610 ft
- Savage Mountain3,520 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. All public domain.