Thorndike, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m820 ft 250 m720 ft 220 m520 ft 160 m320 ft 95 m220 ft 65 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
Thorndike sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 340–730 ft
Lowest
220 ft 65 m
near the middle
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the northeast side
Average
500 ft 150 m
all land inside town boundaries
Thorndike spans about 810 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, near the middle | 220 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thorndike | 270 ft80 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Waldo County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 803 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.3 sq mi
- Density
- 32 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.5781° N, 69.2759° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Kennebec River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 04986
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine133rd highest of 506
- Towns in Waldo County6th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
- Bald Mountain2,630 ft
- Griffin Mountain2,120 ft
- Cadillac Mountain1,518 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).
- 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.