Anson, ME Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,020 ft 310 m880 ft 270 m610 ft 185 m340 ft 105 m200 ft 60 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Anson sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 280–510 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
near the middle
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
on Barton Hill
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside town boundaries
Anson spans about 1,090 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Barton Hill | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 200 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Anson | 250 ft75 m |
| Airport (OWK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi south of the town boundaries | 270 ft82 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Somerset County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 2,320 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.5 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 49 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7984° N, 69.8892° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Central Maine/Norridgewock (OWK) 270 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 04911 04958
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Industry660 ft
- Embden450 ft
- Solon440 ft
- Cornville390 ft
- Anson330 ft
- North Anson330 ft
- Starks320 ft
- Mercer320 ft
- Madison320 ft
- Norridgewock280 ft
- Skowhegan230 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine229th highest of 506
- Towns in Somerset County21st highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf Mountain4,230 ft
- Mount Blue3,202 ft
- Stewart Mountain2,710 ft
- Poplar Mountain2,690 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 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).
- 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.