Winter Harbor, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m330 ft 100 m270 ft 85 m160 ft 50 m55 ft 17 m0 ft 0 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
Winter Harbor sits at about 40 ft (12 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
40 ft 12 m
most residents: 15–170 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the southwest side
Highest
440 ft 135 m
on Schoodic Head
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside town boundaries
Winter Harbor spans about 440 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 | 40 ft12 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on Schoodic Head | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the southwest side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Winter Harbor | 26 ft8 m |
| Airport (BHB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the town boundaries | 83 ft25 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
| Nearest peak Cadillac Mountain, 3.3 mi southwest of the town boundaries (NGS survey) | 1,518 ft463 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Hancock County, Maine, United States
- Population
- 482 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.4 sq mi + 54.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 44.3954° N, 68.0831° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hancock County/Bar Harbor (BHB) 83 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 04693
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Desert140 ft
- Sullivan130 ft
- Hancock110 ft
- Steuben110 ft
- Sorrento98 ft
- Gouldsboro83 ft
- Lamoine76 ft
- Bar Harbor74 ft
- Northeast Harbor62 ft
- Cranberry Isles47 ft
- Winter Harbor40 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maine498th highest of 506
- Towns in Hancock Countylowest of 38
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cadillac Mountain1,518 ft
- Lead Mountain1,479 ft
- Mount Megunticook1,370 ft
- Birch Harbor Mountain370 ft
- Ash Mountain280 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, −9 ft at 44.3565° N, 68.0932° 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, 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.