Monroe, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m650 ft 200 m570 ft 175 m400 ft 120 m230 ft 70 m140 ft 45 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
Monroe sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 200–580 ft
Lowest
140 ft 45 m
on the east side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on Bear Hill
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside town boundaries
Monroe spans about 680 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Bear Hill | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 140 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monroe | 220 ft70 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Waldo County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 943 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.6151° N, 69.0181° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04951
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine190th highest of 506
- Towns in Waldo County9th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Mountain2,630 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 ft
- Cadillac Mountain1,518 ft
- Lead Mountain1,479 ft
- Mount Megunticook1,370 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.