Rangeley, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,690 ft 820 m2,380 ft 725 m2,230 ft 680 m1,920 ft 585 m1,620 ft 495 m1,470 ft 445 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
Rangeley sits at about 1,630 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,630 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,520–1,790 ft
Lowest
1,470 ft 445 m
on the west side
Highest
2,690 ft 820 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,690 ft 515 m
all land inside town boundaries
Rangeley spans about 1,220 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 | 1,630 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,690 ft820 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,470 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rangeley | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Airport (8B0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,821 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Nearest peak Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County, 6.1 mi east of the town boundaries | 4,110 ft1,255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Franklin County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 1,322 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.5 sq mi + 14.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 32 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9664° N, 70.6428° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Androscoggin River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Stephen A Bean Municipal (8B0) 1,821 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 04964 04970
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sandy River1,990 ft
- Dallas1,940 ft
- Plantation of Lincoln1,700 ft
- Rangeley1,630 ft
- Plantation of Rangeley1,600 ft
- Byron1,460 ft
- Carrabassett Valley1,400 ft
- Coplin1,220 ft
- Eustis1,170 ft
- Phillips890 ft
- Roxbury830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine6th highest of 506
- Towns in Franklin County3rd highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County4,110 ft
- East Kennebago Mountain3,810 ft
- Deer Mountain3,440 ft
- Spotted Mountain3,400 ft
- Aziscohos Mountain3,200 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.