Monhegan, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
160 ft 50 m120 ft 35 m100 ft 30 m61 ft 18 m20 ft 6 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.
- Plantation area
- Fades everything outside the official plantation boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Monhegan sits at about 75 ft (23 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside plantation boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
75 ft 23 m
few residents
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Atlantic Ocean
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on Black Head
Average
72 ft 22 m
all land inside plantation boundaries
Monhegan spans about 160 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 75 ft23 m |
| Highest point Inside plantation boundaries, on Black Head | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monhegan | 31 ft10 m |
| Average of all land | 72 ft22 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Plantation in Lincoln County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 63 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi + 47.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 74 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.7623° N, 69.3203° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04852
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Edgecomb150 ft
- Boothbay110 ft
- Bristol110 ft
- Cushing100 ft
- Bremen96 ft
- South Bristol88 ft
- Monhegan75 ft
- Boothbay Harbor69 ft
- Friendship46 ft
- Southport45 ft
- St. George38 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine446th highest of 506
- Towns in Lincoln County15th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Megunticook1,370 ft
- Black Head, Lincoln County160 ft
- Little Whitehead160 ft
- Burnt Head150 ft
- Lighthouse Hill140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the plantation boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census plantation 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, −5 ft at 43.7660° N, 69.3268° 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.