Cornish, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,070 ft 325 m930 ft 285 m670 ft 205 m400 ft 120 m270 ft 80 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
Cornish sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 330–650 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the east side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on Clark Mountain
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside town boundaries
Cornish 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Clark Mountain | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cornish | 350 ft105 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in York County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 1,583 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 71 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.8048° N, 70.8012° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Saco River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04020
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parsonsfield550 ft
- Sebago530 ft
- Hiram520 ft
- Porter490 ft
- Effingham, NH480 ft
- Cornish430 ft
- Limerick400 ft
- Baldwin390 ft
- Kezar Falls380 ft
- Limington310 ft
- Steep Falls290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine171st highest of 506
- Towns in York County5th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pleasant Mountain2,017 ft
- Green Mountain1,910 ft
- Copple Crown Mountain1,870 ft
- Cragged Mountain1,810 ft
- Bill Merrill Mountain1,611 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.