Fairfield, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m460 ft 140 m400 ft 120 m270 ft 85 m140 ft 45 m80 ft 24 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
Fairfield sits at about 170 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 50 m
most residents: 110–340 ft
Lowest
80 ft 24 m
near the middle
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on Bear Mountain
Average
250 ft 75 m
all land inside town boundaries
Fairfield spans about 510 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 | 170 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Bear Mountain | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 80 ft24 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairfield | 140 ft45 m |
| Airport (WVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 333 ft101 m |
| Average of all land | 250 ft75 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Somerset County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 6,530 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.7 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 122 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5884° N, 69.5987° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Waterville Regional (WVL) 333 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 04937 04944 04975
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Albion300 ft
- China300 ft
- Oakland290 ft
- Smithfield270 ft
- Vassalboro210 ft
- Burnham200 ft
- Clinton180 ft
- Fairfield170 ft
- Benton160 ft
- Winslow140 ft
- Waterville130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine351st highest of 506
- Towns in Somerset Countylowest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Blue3,202 ft
- Stewart Mountain2,710 ft
- Poplar Mountain2,690 ft
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County2,570 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 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.