Orrington, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m630 ft 195 m530 ft 160 m320 ft 95 m110 ft 30 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Orrington sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 81–310 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the south side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on Kings Mountain
Average
220 ft 65 m
all land inside town boundaries
Orrington spans about 840 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Kings Mountain | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orrington | 140 ft40 m |
| Airport (BGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi north of the town boundaries | 192 ft59 m |
| Average of all land | 220 ft65 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 3,895 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.0 sq mi + 2.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 156 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.7312° N, 68.8264° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Bangor International (BGR) 192 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04474
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine355th highest of 506
- Towns in Penobscot County45th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saddleback Mountain, Piscataquis County2,980 ft
- Barren Mountain2,646 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).
- 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, −6 ft at 44.7318° N, 68.8301° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.