Hancock, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
270 ft 80 m200 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m100 ft 30 m34 ft 10 m0 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hancock sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 35 m
most residents: 54–210 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Youngs Bay
Highest
270 ft 80 m
on the northwest side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside town boundaries
Hancock spans about 270 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 | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets Youngs Bay | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hancock | 42 ft13 m |
| Airport (BHB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 83 ft25 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
| Nearest peak Cadillac Mountain, 6.3 mi south of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 1,518 ft463 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hancock County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 2,544 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.0 sq mi + 8.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 85 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5292° N, 68.2536° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hancock County/Bar Harbor (BHB) 83 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 04605 04640
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eastbrook210 ft
- Surry200 ft
- Ellsworth180 ft
- Sullivan130 ft
- Franklin130 ft
- Hancock110 ft
- Sorrento98 ft
- Gouldsboro83 ft
- Lamoine76 ft
- Bar Harbor74 ft
- Trenton50 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine399th highest of 506
- Towns in Hancock County20th highest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cadillac Mountain1,518 ft
- Lead Mountain1,479 ft
- Mount Megunticook1,370 ft
- Tucker Mountain390 ft
- Beckwith Hill300 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −6 ft at 44.5024° N, 68.2693° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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.