Bethel, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,920 ft 585 m1,590 ft 485 m1,420 ft 435 m1,100 ft 335 m770 ft 235 m600 ft 185 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
Bethel sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 650–1,070 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,920 ft 585 m
on Locke Mountain
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside town boundaries
Bethel spans about 1,320 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Locke Mountain | 1,920 ft585 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bethel | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (0B1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 674 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
| Nearest peak Puzzle Mountain, 4.1 mi north of the town boundaries | 3,150 ft960 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Oxford County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 2,718 2024 est.
- Land area
- 64.6 sq mi + 1.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4042° N, 70.7906° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Androscoggin River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Bethel Regional (0B1) 674 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 04217 04219 04286
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Newry1,680 ft
- Hanover940 ft
- Woodstock930 ft
- Gilead880 ft
- Greenwood880 ft
- Stoneham840 ft
- Bethel770 ft
- Shelburne, NH760 ft
- West Paris640 ft
- Waterford630 ft
- Rumford620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine41st highest of 506
- Towns in Oxford County11th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Royce Mountain3,190 ft
- Puzzle Mountain3,150 ft
- Spruce Mountain2,360 ft
- Mount Abram1,993 ft
- Wilbur Mountain1,880 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.