Bristol, RI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
220 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m140 ft 40 m81 ft 25 m27 ft 8 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Bristol sits at about 61 ft (19 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
61 ft 19 m
most residents: 19–130 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Mount Hope Bay
Highest
220 ft 65 m
on Mount Hope
Average
63 ft 19 m
all land inside town boundaries
Bristol spans about 220 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 | 61 ft19 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Mount Hope | 220 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Mount Hope Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bristol | 81 ft25 m |
| Airport (PVD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi west of the town boundaries | 54 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 63 ft19 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States
- Population
- 22,023 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.8 sq mi + 10.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,250 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6770° N, 71.2662° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Rhode Island Tf Green International (PVD) 54 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 02809
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tiverton180 ft
- Fall River, MA180 ft
- Portsmouth110 ft
- Middletown100 ft
- Melville92 ft
- Bristol61 ft
- Swansea, MA45 ft
- Warwick39 ft
- Ocean Grove, MA21 ft
- Warren21 ft
- Barrington17 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Rhode Island49th highest of 63
- Towns in Bristol Countyhighest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Juniper Hill158 ft
- Fox Hill, Bristol County140 ft
- Halfmile Hill126 ft
- Ferry Hill110 ft
- Fort Hill, Bristol County93 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).
- 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, −2 ft at 41.6796° N, 71.2957° 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: 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.