Aroostook County, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,270 ft 690 m1,760 ft 535 m1,510 ft 460 m1,000 ft 305 m490 ft 150 m240 ft 75 m
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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
Aroostook County averages about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 240 ft on the south side to 2,269 ft on Peaked Mountain.
Average elevation
860 ft 260 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,269 ft 692 m
on Peaked Mountain
Lowest
240 ft 75 m
on the south side
Aroostook County spans about 2,030 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Peaked Mountain (NGS survey height) | 2,269 ft692 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 240 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
105 mi west to east through Presque Isle.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Maine, United States
- Population
- 66,776 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6,671.2 sq mi + 156.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 99%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 25%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Somerset County1,180 ft
- Piscataquis County1,090 ft
- Aroostook County860 ft
- Penobscot County430 ft
- Washington County270 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Maine5th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States1,686th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Peaked Mountain, Aroostook County2,269 ft
- Rocky Mountain, Aroostook County2,000 ft
- Deboullie Mountain1,975 ft
- McLean Mountain1,961 ft
- Mars Hill1,742 ft
All 64 towns in Aroostook County by typical elevation
- Allagash1,130 ft
- New Canada910 ft
- Moro850 ft
- Merrill800 ft
- Cyr780 ft
- Stockholm770 ft
- Frenchville770 ft
- Westmanland770 ft
- Portage Lake770 ft
- Caswell760 ft
- Smyrna740 ft
- Perham730 ft
- New Sweden730 ft
- Winterville720 ft
- Ashland720 ft
- St. Agatha720 ft
- Castle Hill710 ft
- Dyer Brook700 ft
- St. Francis700 ft
- Garfield690 ft
- Nashville690 ft
- Wade680 ft
- Wallagrass670 ft
- Easton660 ft
- Masardis660 ft
- Hersey660 ft
- Fort Kent660 ft
- Madawaska650 ft
- Westfield640 ft
- Limestone640 ft
- Eagle Lake640 ft
- Woodland610 ft
- Ludlow610 ft
- Amity610 ft
- Chapman600 ft
- Oakfield580 ft
- Sherman580 ft
- Mapleton580 ft
- St. John580 ft
- Linneus570 ft
- Hammond560 ft
- Hodgdon550 ft
- Caribou540 ft
- Glenwood540 ft
- Grand Isle520 ft
- Washburn520 ft
- Van Buren520 ft
- Presque Isle510 ft
- Hamlin510 ft
- Crystal500 ft
- Blaine490 ft
- Island Falls480 ft
- Mars Hill470 ft
- Weston470 ft
- Monticello470 ft
- Orient470 ft
- Fort Fairfield470 ft
- New Limerick440 ft
- Bridgewater430 ft
- Littleton430 ft
- Haynesville410 ft
- Reed400 ft
- Houlton390 ft
- Macwahoc320 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 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; 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, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.