Brighton, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,660 ft 505 m1,390 ft 425 m1,260 ft 385 m1,000 ft 305 m730 ft 225 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.
- Plantation area
- Fades everything outside the official plantation boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brighton sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 710–1,260 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,659 ft 506 m
on Kelly Mountain
Average
990 ft 300 m
all land inside plantation boundaries
Brighton spans about 1,060 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside plantation boundaries, on Kelly Mountain | 1,659 ft506 m |
| Lowest point Inside plantation boundaries, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brighton | 910 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 990 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Plantation in Somerset County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 62 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.3 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0453° N, 69.6948° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 04912 04942
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Ridge1,220 ft
- Kingsbury980 ft
- Brighton890 ft
- Wellington720 ft
- Athens540 ft
- Moscow500 ft
- Harmony460 ft
- Embden450 ft
- Cambridge450 ft
- Solon440 ft
- Bingham350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine31st highest of 506
- Towns in Somerset County9th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
- Stewart Mountain2,710 ft
- Poplar Mountain2,690 ft
- Bald Mountain2,630 ft
- Pierce Pond Mountain2,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the plantation 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 plantation 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.