Cranston, RI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 155 m380 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m190 ft 55 m63 ft 19 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cranston sits at about 79 ft (24 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
79 ft 24 m
most residents: 41–250 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Narragansett Bay
Highest
500 ft 152 m
on Bald Hill
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Cranston spans about 500 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 | 79 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Bald Hill | 500 ft152 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Narragansett Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cranston | 64 ft20 m |
| Airport (PVD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi south of the city limits | 54 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
- Population
- 84,448 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.3 sq mi + 1.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,979 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7798° N, 71.4373° 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 6
- 02823 02831 02905 02910 02920 02921
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Johnston190 ft
- West Warwick170 ft
- North Providence170 ft
- Central Falls96 ft
- Pawtucket90 ft
- Providence80 ft
- Cranston79 ft
- Seekonk, MA68 ft
- East Providence61 ft
- Warwick39 ft
- Barrington17 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Rhode Island43rd highest of 63
- Towns in Providence County24th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Hill, Providence County500 ft
- Horn Hill500 ft
- Lawton Hill490 ft
- Applehouse Hill360 ft
- Dugaway Hill240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, −1 ft at 41.7615° N, 71.3868° 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.