Vinalhaven, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
210 ft 65 m160 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m79 ft 24 m26 ft 8 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vinalhaven sits at about 44 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
44 ft 13 m
most residents: 16–63 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the northwest side
Highest
210 ft 65 m
on Middle Mountain
Average
50 ft 15 m
all land inside town boundaries
Vinalhaven spans about 210 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 | 44 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Middle Mountain | 210 ft65 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vinalhaven | 14 ft4 m |
| Airport (RKD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.1 mi west of the town boundaries | 55 ft17 m |
| Average of all land | 50 ft15 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Knox County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 1,259 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.5 sq mi + 145.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 54 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.0481° N, 68.8317° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Knox County Regional (RKD) 55 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04863
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rockport210 ft
- Camden140 ft
- Isle au Haut95 ft
- Owls Head76 ft
- Deer Isle73 ft
- Rockland56 ft
- North Haven54 ft
- Stonington50 ft
- Vinalhaven44 ft
- Matinicus Isle44 ft
- South Thomaston44 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine491st highest of 506
- Towns in Knox County15th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cadillac Mountain1,518 ft
- Lead Mountain1,479 ft
- Mount Megunticook1,370 ft
- Basin High Mountain160 ft
- Barley Hill130 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, −7 ft at 44.1032° N, 68.9101° 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 and Watershed Boundary Dataset; 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.