Gardiner, ME Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
400 ft 125 m300 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m150 ft 45 m51 ft 16 m1 ft 0 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gardiner sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 79–260 ft
Lowest
1 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
400 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Average
200 ft 60 m
all land inside city limits
Gardiner spans about 399 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 400 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 1 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gardiner | 30 ft9 m |
| Airport (AUG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi north of the city limits | 352 ft107 m |
| Average of all land | 200 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Kennebec County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 6,160 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.7 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 393 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2301° N, 69.7753° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Augusta State (AUG) 352 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 04345 04359
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Manchester330 ft
- Litchfield260 ft
- Chelsea220 ft
- Hallowell220 ft
- West Gardiner200 ft
- Whitefield190 ft
- Augusta190 ft
- Farmingdale170 ft
- Gardiner160 ft
- Pittston150 ft
- Randolph83 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine356th highest of 506
- Towns in Kennebec County24th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Blue3,202 ft
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County2,570 ft
- Spruce Mountain2,360 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 ft
- Mount Megunticook1,370 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.