Phillips, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,250 ft 685 m1,820 ft 555 m1,600 ft 490 m1,170 ft 360 m740 ft 225 m530 ft 160 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
Phillips sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 570–1,200 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
near the middle
Highest
2,250 ft 685 m
at the foot of the Blue Mountains
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside town boundaries
Phillips spans about 1,720 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, at the foot of the Blue Mountains | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Phillips | 570 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Nearest peak Jackson Mountain, 3.7 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 3,550 ft1,080 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 940 2024 est.
- Land area
- 50.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.8231° N, 70.3395° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04966
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sandy River1,990 ft
- Weld900 ft
- Phillips890 ft
- Temple770 ft
- Avon700 ft
- New Vineyard680 ft
- Strong670 ft
- Industry660 ft
- Kingfield610 ft
- New Portland530 ft
- Farmington430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine30th highest of 506
- Towns in Franklin County9th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County4,110 ft
- Jackson Mountain3,550 ft
- Mount Blue3,202 ft
- Walker Mountain2,670 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 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.