Kent County, RI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m470 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m240 ft 70 m79 ft 24 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Kent County averages about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on Narragansett Bay to 630 ft on Bald Hill.
Average elevation
290 ft 90 m
all land inside the county
Highest
630 ft 190 m
on Bald Hill
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Narragansett Bay
Kent County spans about 630 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Bald Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Narragansett Bay | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
24 mi west to east through Warwick.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Rhode Island, United States
- Population
- 172,450 2024 est.
- Land area
- 168.6 sq mi + 19.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,023 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 98%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 83%, Long Island Sound 17%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Windham County, CT470 ft
- Providence County370 ft
- Kent County290 ft
- New London County, CT250 ft
- Washington County150 ft
- Newport County96 ft
- Bristol County39 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Rhode Island2nd highest of 5
- Counties in the United States2,633rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Bald Hill, Kent County630 ft
- Bowen Hill610 ft
- Waterman Hill600 ft
- Hammitt Hill600 ft
- Weeks Hill600 ft
All 6 towns in Kent County by typical elevation
- Greene500 ft
- West Greenwich390 ft
- Coventry260 ft
- West Warwick170 ft
- East Greenwich130 ft
- Warwick39 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, −3 ft at 41.6924° N, 71.4499° 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.