Hancock County, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,520 ft 465 m1,140 ft 345 m950 ft 290 m570 ft 175 m190 ft 60 m0 ft 0 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hancock County averages about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Otter Ponds to 1,518 ft on Cadillac Mountain.
Average elevation
270 ft 85 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,518 ft 463 m
on Cadillac Mountain
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Otter Ponds
Hancock County spans about 1,520 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Cadillac Mountain (NGS survey height) | 1,518 ft463 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Otter Ponds | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
65 mi south to north through Ellsworth.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Maine, United States
- Population
- 56,946 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,587.2 sq mi + 757.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 36 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 95%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Penobscot County430 ft
- Waldo County350 ft
- Hancock County270 ft
- Washington County270 ft
- Knox County200 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Maine12th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States2,669th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cadillac Mountain1,518 ft
- Lead Mountain1,479 ft
- Sargent Mountain, Hancock County1,360 ft
- Pemetic Mountain1,240 ft
- Bald Mountain, Hancock County1,230 ft
All 38 towns in Hancock County by typical elevation
- Great Pond420 ft
- Aurora410 ft
- Osborn370 ft
- Dedham340 ft
- Amherst250 ft
- Otis250 ft
- Eastbrook210 ft
- Bucksport210 ft
- Waltham200 ft
- Surry200 ft
- Ellsworth180 ft
- Mariaville180 ft
- Blue Hill160 ft
- Orland140 ft
- Mount Desert140 ft
- Sedgwick140 ft
- Sullivan130 ft
- Franklin130 ft
- Penobscot130 ft
- Hancock110 ft
- Verona Island110 ft
- Castine100 ft
- Sorrento98 ft
- Brooksville89 ft
- Gouldsboro83 ft
- Lamoine76 ft
- Southwest Harbor76 ft
- Swans Island75 ft
- Bar Harbor74 ft
- Deer Isle73 ft
- Northeast Harbor62 ft
- Frenchboro56 ft
- Tremont55 ft
- Brooklin52 ft
- Stonington50 ft
- Trenton50 ft
- Cranberry Isles47 ft
- Winter Harbor40 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, −9 ft at 44.1151° N, 68.4443° 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: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.