Sunapee, NH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,430 ft 435 m1,340 ft 410 m1,160 ft 355 m990 ft 300 m900 ft 275 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
Sunapee sits at about 1,140 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,020–1,310 ft
Lowest
900 ft 275 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the north side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sunapee spans about 700 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 | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 900 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sunapee | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Airport (2B3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi west of the town boundaries | 784 ft239 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Nearest peak Summit, 1.7 mi south of the town boundaries | 2,730 ft830 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States
- Population
- 3,459 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.1 sq mi + 4.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 164 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.3876° N, 72.0879° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Parlin Field (2B3) 784 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 03751 03782
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springfield1,370 ft
- Goshen1,290 ft
- New London1,240 ft
- Newbury1,230 ft
- Blodgett Landing1,200 ft
- Grantham1,180 ft
- Sunapee1,140 ft
- Croydon1,130 ft
- Newport940 ft
- Sutton940 ft
- Wilmot850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Hampshire41st highest of 260
- Towns in Sullivan County8th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Kearsarge2,930 ft
- Summit2,730 ft
- Grantham Mountain2,660 ft
- Melvin Hill2,300 ft
- Ragged Mountain2,280 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. All public domain.