West Forks, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,570 ft 480 m1,320 ft 400 m1,190 ft 365 m940 ft 285 m690 ft 210 m560 ft 170 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
West Forks sits at about 1,090 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,090 ft 335 m
most residents: 570–1,110 ft
Lowest
570 ft 170 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,570 ft 480 m
on Wilson Hill
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside plantation boundaries
West Forks spans about 1,000 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 | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside plantation boundaries, on Wilson Hill | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside plantation boundaries, on the southeast side | 570 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Forks | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Nearest peak Coburn Mountain, 3.7 mi northwest of the plantation boundaries (NGS survey) | 3,725 ft1,135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Plantation in Somerset County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 62 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.7 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1.3 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 45.3970° N, 70.0362° 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
- Dennistown1,390 ft
- Highland1,350 ft
- Moose River1,320 ft
- Caratunk1,310 ft
- The Forks1,240 ft
- Shirley1,220 ft
- Pleasant Ridge1,220 ft
- Jackman1,210 ft
- Greenville1,110 ft
- West Forks1,090 ft
- Moscow500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine22nd highest of 506
- Towns in Somerset County8th highest of 34
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coburn Mountain3,725 ft
- Big Moose Mountain3,197 ft
- Moxie Mountain2,920 ft
- Bald Mountain2,630 ft
- Pierce Pond Mountain2,490 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the plantation 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 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.