Swanzey, NH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,430 ft 435 m1,180 ft 360 m1,050 ft 320 m810 ft 245 m560 ft 170 m440 ft 135 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
Swanzey sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 470–790 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,430 ft 435 m
on Franklin Mountain
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside town boundaries
Swanzey spans about 990 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Franklin Mountain | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Swanzey | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (EEN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 488 ft149 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
| Nearest peak Monadnock Mountain, 5.9 mi east of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 3,170 ft966 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States
- Population
- 7,463 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.0 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 166 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8698° N, 72.2818° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Connecticut River → Long Island Sound
- Airport
- Dillant/Hopkins (EEN) 488 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 03431 03446
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Roxbury1,200 ft
- Fitzwilliam1,110 ft
- Troy1,100 ft
- Richmond1,030 ft
- Marlborough950 ft
- Chesterfield820 ft
- Westmoreland770 ft
- Swanzey530 ft
- Winchester500 ft
- Keene500 ft
- West Swanzey470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New Hampshire167th highest of 260
- Towns in Cheshire County19th highest of 25
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.