Dexter, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 295 m790 ft 240 m700 ft 215 m530 ft 160 m360 ft 110 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
Dexter sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 350–740 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the south side
Highest
960 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Average
520 ft 155 m
all land inside town boundaries
Dexter spans about 690 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 960 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dexter | 420 ft130 m |
| Airport (1B0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 533 ft162 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 3,849 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi + 2.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 110 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.0239° N, 69.2898° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Dexter Regional (1B0) 533 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04930
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parkman610 ft
- Ripley540 ft
- Sangerville490 ft
- Dexter460 ft
- Guilford450 ft
- Cambridge450 ft
- Dover-Foxcroft400 ft
- Garland400 ft
- St. Albans380 ft
- Exeter320 ft
- Corinna290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine154th highest of 506
- Towns in Penobscot County5th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- White Cap Mountain3,646 ft
- Saddleback Mountain, Piscataquis County2,980 ft
- Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
- Barren Mountain2,646 ft
- Bald Mountain2,630 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.