South Paris, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
710 ft 215 m610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m470 ft 140 m370 ft 110 m320 ft 95 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Paris sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 370–500 ft
Lowest
320 ft 95 m
on the south side
Highest
710 ft 215 m
on the south side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Paris spans about 390 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 710 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 320 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Paris | 380 ft115 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Oxford County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 2,183 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 563 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.2237° N, 70.5134° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Little Androscoggin River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04281
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greenwood880 ft
- West Paris640 ft
- Waterford630 ft
- Otisfield580 ft
- Buckfield500 ft
- Norway470 ft
- Hebron460 ft
- Paris440 ft
- South Paris400 ft
- Oxford360 ft
- Mechanic Falls310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine189th highest of 506
- Towns in Oxford County35th highest of 37
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- West Royce Mountain3,190 ft
- Spruce Mountain2,360 ft
- Pleasant Mountain2,017 ft
- Mount Abram1,993 ft
- Wilbur Mountain1,880 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 320 ft at 44.2068° N, 70.5199° 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.
- South Paris is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.