Rhode Island Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m610 ft 185 m510 ft 155 m300 ft 90 m100 ft 30 m0 ft 0 m
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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.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rhode Island averages about 250 ft (75 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Narragansett Bay to 808 ft on Jerimoth Hill.
Average elevation
250 ft 75 m
all land in Rhode Island
Highest
808 ft 246 m
on Jerimoth Hill
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Narragansett Bay
Rhode Island spans about 810 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 | 250 ft75 m |
| Highest point In Rhode Island, on Jerimoth Hill (NGS survey height) | 808 ft246 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Narragansett Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
23 mi west to east through Providence.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the New England division of the Northeast region, United States
- Population
- 1,112,308 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,033.9 sq mi + 511.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,076 per sq mi
- Counties
- 5
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 97%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 69%, Long Island Sound 31%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
- New York1,130 ft
- Massachusetts550 ft
- Connecticut470 ft
- Rhode Island250 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States47th highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Jerimoth Hill808 ft
- Durfee Hill805 ft
- Pine Hill, Providence County780 ft
- Whites Hill770 ft
- Benson Mountain760 ft
All 5 counties by average elevation
- Providence County370 ft
- Kent County290 ft
- Washington County150 ft
- Newport County96 ft
- Bristol County39 ft
The one tribal land
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −22 ft at 41.9801° N, 71.4810° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states 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 state 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).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- 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.