Piscataquis County, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
5,250 ft 1,600 m3,990 ft 1,215 m3,350 ft 1,020 m2,090 ft 635 m820 ft 250 m190 ft 55 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Piscataquis County averages about 1,090 ft (330 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 190 ft on the southeast side to 5,250 ft on Mount Katahdin.
Average elevation
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside the county
Highest
5,250 ft 1,600 m
on Mount Katahdin
Lowest
190 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
Piscataquis County spans about 5,060 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Mount Katahdin (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 5,250 ft1,600 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 190 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
102 mi south to north through Dover-Foxcroft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Maine, United States
- Population
- 17,432 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3,960.8 sq mi + 417.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.4 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 79%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Somerset County1,180 ft
- Piscataquis County1,090 ft
- Aroostook County860 ft
- Penobscot County430 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Maine4th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States1,268th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Katahdin5,250 ft
- North Brother4,130 ft
- White Cap Mountain3,646 ft
- Traveler Mountain3,542 ft
- Baker Mountain3,520 ft
All 19 towns in Piscataquis County by typical elevation
- Shirley1,220 ft
- Greenville1,110 ft
- Beaver Cove1,070 ft
- Kingsbury980 ft
- Monson810 ft
- Wellington720 ft
- Parkman610 ft
- Willimantic590 ft
- Abbot510 ft
- Sebec500 ft
- Sangerville490 ft
- Lake View470 ft
- Guilford450 ft
- Dover-Foxcroft400 ft
- Brownville390 ft
- Brownville Junction390 ft
- Bowerbank350 ft
- Milo320 ft
- Medford300 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.