Shapleigh, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m660 ft 200 m470 ft 145 m380 ft 115 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
Shapleigh sits at about 570 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 170 m
most residents: 460–700 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the north side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the east side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside town boundaries
Shapleigh spans about 750 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 | 570 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the north side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shapleigh | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in York County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 3,010 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.7 sq mi + 2.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.5406° N, 70.8481° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Mousam River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04076
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wakefield, NH630 ft
- Acton610 ft
- Sanbornville, NH580 ft
- Shapleigh570 ft
- Newfield550 ft
- Union, NH490 ft
- Milton Mills, NH480 ft
- Lebanon360 ft
- Waterboro350 ft
- Sanford300 ft
- Alfred260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine100th highest of 506
- Towns in York County2nd highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Shaw2,990 ft
- Green Mountain1,910 ft
- Copple Crown Mountain1,870 ft
- Cragged Mountain1,810 ft
- Bill Merrill Mountain1,611 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.