Houlton, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m350 ft 105 m290 ft 85 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
Houlton sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 360–460 ft
Lowest
290 ft 85 m
on the north side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the east side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside town boundaries
Houlton 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 290 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Houlton | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (HUL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 489 ft149 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 6,005 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.7 sq mi
- Density
- 164 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.1262° N, 67.8403° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Meduxnekeag River → Saint John River
- Airport
- Houlton International (HUL) 489 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04730
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Smyrna740 ft
- Ludlow610 ft
- Amity610 ft
- Oakfield580 ft
- Linneus570 ft
- Hammond560 ft
- Hodgdon550 ft
- Monticello470 ft
- New Limerick440 ft
- Littleton430 ft
- Houlton390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine193rd highest of 506
- Towns in Aroostook County63rd highest of 64
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Traveler Mountain3,542 ft
- North Turner Mountain3,320 ft
- North Pogy Mountain2,840 ft
- Mount Chase2,440 ft
- Mars Hill1,742 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.