Paris, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,140 ft 345 m1,000 ft 305 m720 ft 220 m450 ft 135 m310 ft 95 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
Paris sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 380–720 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the south side
Highest
1,410 ft 430 m
on Singepole Mountain
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside town boundaries
Paris spans about 1,100 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Singepole Mountain | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paris | 810 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Oxford County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 5,379 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 132 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2598° N, 70.5006° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Little Androscoggin River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 04271 04281
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodstock930 ft
- Greenwood880 ft
- Sumner730 ft
- West Paris640 ft
- Hartford550 ft
- Buckfield500 ft
- Norway470 ft
- Hebron460 ft
- Paris440 ft
- South Paris400 ft
- Oxford360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine166th highest of 506
- Towns in Oxford County32nd highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Puzzle Mountain3,150 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 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, 310 ft at 44.1965° N, 70.5193° 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.