Sandy River, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,110 ft 1,255 m3,380 ft 1,030 m3,010 ft 915 m2,270 ft 690 m1,530 ft 465 m1,160 ft 355 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.
- Plantation area
- Fades everything outside the official plantation boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sandy River sits at about 1,990 ft (605 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,990 ft 605 m
most residents: 1,680–2,920 ft
Lowest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the east side
Highest
4,110 ft 1,255 m
on Saddleback Mountain
Average
2,150 ft 655 m
all land inside plantation boundaries
Sandy River spans about 2,950 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 | 1,990 ft605 m |
| Highest point Inside plantation boundaries, on Saddleback Mountain | 4,110 ft1,255 m |
| Lowest point Inside plantation boundaries, on the east side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Airport (8B0) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi northwest of the plantation boundaries | 1,821 ft555 m |
| Average of all land | 2,150 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the middle of Sandy River.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Plantation in Franklin County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 129 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.1 sq mi + 1.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3.8 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.9047° N, 70.6031° 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 1
- 04970
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Mainehighest of 506
- Towns in Franklin Countyhighest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Crocker Mountain4,220 ft
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County4,110 ft
- Elephant Mountain3,770 ft
- Jackson Mountain3,550 ft
- Spotted Mountain3,400 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the plantation 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 plantation 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.