The Forks, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,470 ft 755 m1,980 ft 605 m1,730 ft 530 m1,240 ft 380 m750 ft 230 m500 ft 155 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
The Forks sits at about 1,240 ft (375 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside plantation boundaries (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,240 ft 375 m
few residents
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the south side
Highest
2,470 ft 755 m
on Pleasant Pond Mountain
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside plantation boundaries
The Forks spans about 1,970 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,240 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside plantation boundaries, on Pleasant Pond Mountain | 2,470 ft755 m |
| Lowest point Inside plantation boundaries, on the south side | 500 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for The Forks | 580 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Plantation in Somerset County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 48 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.6 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3362° N, 69.9673° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04985
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Highland1,350 ft
- Caratunk1,310 ft
- The Forks1,240 ft
- Shirley1,220 ft
- Pleasant Ridge1,220 ft
- Greenville1,110 ft
- West Forks1,090 ft
- Kingsbury980 ft
- Monson810 ft
- Moscow500 ft
- Bingham350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine14th highest of 506
- Towns in Somerset County5th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coburn Mountain3,725 ft
- Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
- Stewart Mountain2,710 ft
- Bald Mountain2,630 ft
- Pierce Pond Mountain2,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the plantation boundaries; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.