Shirley, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,670 ft 510 m1,410 ft 430 m1,280 ft 390 m1,020 ft 310 m760 ft 230 m630 ft 195 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
Shirley sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,060–1,370 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the south side
Highest
1,670 ft 510 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside town boundaries
Shirley spans about 1,040 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (3B1) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi northeast of the town boundaries | 1,402 ft427 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Nearest peak Big Moose Mountain, 6.8 mi northwest of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 3,197 ft974 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.5 mi south to north through the middle of Shirley.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.3 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 5.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3679° N, 69.6152° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Piscataquis River → Penobscot River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greenville Municipal (3B1) 1,402 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 04406 04485
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- The Forks1,240 ft
- Shirley1,220 ft
- Greenville1,110 ft
- Beaver Cove1,070 ft
- Kingsbury980 ft
- Monson810 ft
- Parkman610 ft
- Willimantic590 ft
- Abbot510 ft
- Sangerville490 ft
- Guilford450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine16th highest of 506
- Towns in Piscataquis Countyhighest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Baker Mountain3,520 ft
- Big Moose Mountain3,197 ft
- Moxie Mountain2,920 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.