York County, ME Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,000 ft 305 m830 ft 255 m500 ft 150 m170 ft 50 m0 ft 0 m
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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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
York County averages about 300 ft (95 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Atlantic Ocean to 1,330 ft on Clark Mountain.
Average elevation
300 ft 95 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on Clark Mountain
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Atlantic Ocean
York County spans about 1,330 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 300 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Clark Mountain (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Atlantic Ocean | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
49 mi south to north through Sanford.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Maine, United States
- Population
- 220,143 2024 est.
- Land area
- 991.2 sq mi + 278.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 222 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England 99%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Oxford County1,190 ft
- Carroll County, NH1,060 ft
- Strafford County, NH420 ft
- York County300 ft
- Cumberland County270 ft
- Rockingham County, NH260 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Maine9th highest of 16
- Counties in the United States2,616th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Clark Mountain, York County1,330 ft
- Hosac Mountain1,310 ft
- Wiggin Mountain1,300 ft
- Cedar Mountain, York County1,230 ft
- Sawyer Mountain, York County1,220 ft
All 36 towns in York County by typical elevation
- Acton610 ft
- Shapleigh570 ft
- Newfield550 ft
- Parsonsfield550 ft
- Cornish430 ft
- Limerick400 ft
- Kezar Falls partly380 ft
- Lebanon360 ft
- Lake Arrowhead350 ft
- Waterboro350 ft
- Limington310 ft
- Sanford300 ft
- Hollis260 ft
- Alfred260 ft
- Lyman260 ft
- Buxton230 ft
- Berwick210 ft
- Dayton210 ft
- North Berwick180 ft
- Wells140 ft
- West Kennebunk120 ft
- South Berwick120 ft
- Biddeford110 ft
- Arundel110 ft
- Saco84 ft
- Kennebunk66 ft
- Ogunquit66 ft
- Old Orchard Beach52 ft
- York52 ft
- Kittery Point49 ft
- Kennebunkport44 ft
- Eliot43 ft
- Cape Neddick40 ft
- South Eliot38 ft
- York Harbor37 ft
- Kittery36 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 2 arc-second (≈200 ft, 62 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, −24 ft at 43.0807° N, 70.7374° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.