Portage Lake, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,060 ft 320 m980 ft 300 m820 ft 250 m660 ft 200 m590 ft 180 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
Portage Lake sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 650–890 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on Lanigan Mountain
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside town boundaries
Portage Lake spans about 620 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Lanigan Mountain | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the middle of Portage Lake.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 362 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.8 sq mi + 3.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.7855° N, 68.4924° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Fish River
- ZIP codes 1
- 04768
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Portage Lake770 ft
- Perham730 ft
- Winterville720 ft
- Ashland720 ft
- Castle Hill710 ft
- Garfield690 ft
- Nashville690 ft
- Wade680 ft
- Eagle Lake640 ft
- Mapleton580 ft
- Washburn520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine46th highest of 506
- Towns in Aroostook County9th highest of 64
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Traveler Mountain3,542 ft
- North Turner Mountain3,320 ft
- North Pogy Mountain2,840 ft
- Mount Chase2,440 ft
- Mars Hill1,742 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.