Van Buren, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 340 m940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m680 ft 205 m510 ft 155 m420 ft 130 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
Van Buren sits at about 520 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 155 m
most residents: 460–660 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the west side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside town boundaries
Van Buren spans about 690 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 | 520 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Van Buren | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (CYSL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi east of the town boundaries | 793 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 1,999 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.8 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 59 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 47.1573° N, 67.9353° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Saint John River
- Airport
- St Leonard (CYSL) 793 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 04746 04785
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cyr780 ft
- Stockholm770 ft
- Westmanland770 ft
- Caswell760 ft
- New Sweden730 ft
- St. Agatha720 ft
- Limestone640 ft
- Woodland610 ft
- Grand Isle520 ft
- Van Buren520 ft
- Hamlin510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine124th highest of 506
- Towns in Aroostook County47th highest of 64
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mars Hill1,742 ft
- Cold Mountain1,070 ft
- Moose Hill, Aroostook County1,030 ft
- Stockholm Mountain950 ft
- Reservoir Hill, Aroostook County680 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.