Lewiston, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m260 ft 80 m160 ft 45 m100 ft 30 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
Lewiston sits at about 240 ft (75 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
240 ft 75 m
most residents: 200–300 ft
Lowest
100 ft 30 m
on the south side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on Thorncrag Hill
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside city limits
Lewiston spans about 410 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 | 240 ft75 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on Thorncrag Hill | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 100 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lewiston | 220 ft65 m |
| Airport (LEW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 288 ft88 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 38,772 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.1 sq mi + 1.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,135 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.1004° N, 70.2148° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Auburn/Lewiston Municipal (LEW) 288 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04240
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Minot510 ft
- Greene390 ft
- Poland340 ft
- Mechanic Falls310 ft
- Wales310 ft
- New Gloucester300 ft
- Sabattus260 ft
- Auburn250 ft
- Lewiston240 ft
- Lisbon180 ft
- Durham180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine300th highest of 506
- Towns in Androscoggin County12th highest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County2,570 ft
- Spruce Mountain2,360 ft
- Pleasant Mountain2,017 ft
- Mount Abram1,993 ft
- Wilbur Mountain1,880 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.