Ripley, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,080 ft 330 m890 ft 270 m790 ft 240 m590 ft 180 m400 ft 120 m300 ft 90 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
Ripley sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 400–640 ft
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the west side
Highest
1,080 ft 330 m
on Saint Albans Mountain
Average
520 ft 155 m
all land inside town boundaries
Ripley spans about 780 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Saint Albans Mountain | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 300 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ripley | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (1B0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi east of the town boundaries | 533 ft162 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Somerset County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 485 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9912° N, 69.3717° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Dexter Regional (1B0) 533 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04930
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wellington720 ft
- Parkman610 ft
- Ripley540 ft
- Dexter460 ft
- Harmony460 ft
- Cambridge450 ft
- Garland400 ft
- St. Albans380 ft
- Palmyra310 ft
- Corinna290 ft
- Hartland280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine109th highest of 506
- Towns in Somerset County11th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Saddleback Mountain, Piscataquis County2,980 ft
- Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
- Stewart Mountain2,710 ft
- Barren Mountain2,646 ft
- Bald Mountain2,630 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.