Providence, RI Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
250 ft 75 m190 ft 60 m160 ft 50 m95 ft 29 m32 ft 10 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Providence sits at about 80 ft (24 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
80 ft 24 m
most residents: 47–140 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Narragansett Bay
Highest
250 ft 75 m
on the west side
Average
77 ft 24 m
all land inside city limits
Providence spans about 250 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 | 80 ft24 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 250 ft75 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Narragansett Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Providence | 9 ft3 m |
| Airport (PVD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi south of the city limits | 54 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 77 ft24 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States
- Population
- 194,706 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.4 sq mi + 2.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 10,578 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8240° N, 71.4128° 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 9
- 02903 02904 02905 02906 02907 02908 02909 02912 02918
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Johnston190 ft
- Lincoln180 ft
- North Providence170 ft
- Valley Falls130 ft
- Central Falls96 ft
- Pawtucket90 ft
- North Seekonk, MA87 ft
- Providence80 ft
- Cranston79 ft
- Seekonk, MA68 ft
- East Providence61 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Rhode Island42nd highest of 63
- Towns in Providence County23rd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Baileys Butts200 ft
- College Hill200 ft
- Bradley Hill190 ft
- Mount Pleasant, Providence County160 ft
- Smith Hill85 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, −2 ft at 41.8099° N, 71.4010° 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. All public domain.