Detroit, ME Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Detroit, Maine, shaded from 170 ft on the southwest side to 350 ft on Beech Hill
Elevation
350 ft 105 m300 ft 95 m280 ft 85 m240 ft 70 m190 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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

Detroit sits at about 220 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
220 ft 65 m
most residents: 180–250 ft
Lowest
170 ft 50 m
on the southwest side
Highest
350 ft 105 m
on Beech Hill
Average
220 ft 65 m
all land inside town boundaries

Detroit spans about 180 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
220 ft65 m
Highest point
Inside town boundaries, on Beech Hill
350 ft105 m
Lowest point
Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side
170 ft50 m
Town center
USGS map point for Detroit
190 ft55 m
Airport (2B7)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi southwest of the town boundaries
197 ft60 m
Average of all land220 ft65 m

Elevation profile, south to north

6.1 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Detroit, Maine, shaded from 170 ft on the southwest side to 350 ft on Beech Hill
Town boundaries (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 40 ft (12 m).
Location
Town in Somerset County, Maine, United States
Population
921 2024 est.
Land area
20.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
Density
45 per sq mi
Coordinates
44.7926° N, 69.2967° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
New England
Drains to
Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Pittsfield Municipal (2B7) 197 ft
ZIP codes 1
04929
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. St. Albans380 ft
  2. Troy360 ft
  3. Etna320 ft
  4. Palmyra310 ft
  5. Corinna290 ft
  6. Hartland280 ft
  7. Plymouth280 ft
  8. Pittsfield230 ft
  9. Newport230 ft
  10. Detroit220 ft
  11. Burnham200 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
  • Barren Mountain2,646 ft
  • Bald Mountain2,630 ft
  • Griffin Mountain2,120 ft
  • Mount Megunticook1,370 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.