Bristol County, 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 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bristol County averages about 39 ft (12 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Mount Hope Bay to 220 ft on Mount Hope.
Average elevation
39 ft 12 m
all land inside the county
Highest
220 ft 65 m
on Mount Hope
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Mount Hope Bay
Bristol County spans about 220 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 | 39 ft12 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Hope (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 220 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Mount Hope Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through Bristol.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Rhode Island, United States
- Population
- 50,145 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.1 sq mi + 20.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,078 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 92%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Providence County370 ft
- Kent County290 ft
- Bristol County, MA99 ft
- Newport County96 ft
- Bristol County39 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Rhode Islandlowest of 5
- Counties in the United States3,052nd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Hope220 ft
- Juniper Hill158 ft
- Fox Hill, Bristol County140 ft
- Halfmile Hill126 ft
- Ferry Hill110 ft
All 3 towns in Bristol County by typical elevation
- Bristol61 ft
- Warren21 ft
- Barrington17 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell; 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; 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, −2 ft at 41.7340° N, 71.2896° 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 counties 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 county 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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.