Sidney, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m450 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m230 ft 70 m88 ft 27 m15 ft 5 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
Sidney sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 160–500 ft
Lowest
16 ft 5 m
on the south side
Highest
600 ft 185 m
on Quaker Hill
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside town boundaries
Sidney spans about 584 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Quaker Hill | 600 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 16 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sidney | 170 ft55 m |
| Airport (AUG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southwest of the town boundaries | 352 ft107 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Kennebec County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 4,904 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.2 sq mi + 3.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.4131° N, 69.7289° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Augusta State (AUG) 352 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04330
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Manchester330 ft
- Belgrade320 ft
- Oakland290 ft
- Sidney280 ft
- Windsor240 ft
- Chelsea220 ft
- Hallowell220 ft
- Vassalboro210 ft
- Augusta190 ft
- Winslow140 ft
- Waterville130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine269th highest of 506
- Towns in Kennebec County13th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Blue3,202 ft
- Saddleback Mountain, Franklin County2,570 ft
- Spruce Mountain2,360 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 ft
- Mount Megunticook1,370 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 15 ft at 44.3801° N, 69.7288° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.