Maine / Hancock / Mount Desert

Mount Desert

Town in Hancock County.

People

2,214Census · July 1, 2025

Hunt district

WMD 26Map · Boundary

Deer 2025

21 in 2024

Income

$72,744Hancock County — not this town alone

Land

1,587 sq miHancock County — not this town alone

Density

36 per sq miHancock County — not this town alone

Federal money

$589.3 millionHancock County, FY2025

Weather alerts

0Hancock County

Climate reporters

0 placesThis town

Chemical reporters

0 placesThis town

Town office

For shoreland zoning, building permits, docks, and other waterfront questions. Contact the town office.

21 Sea Street, Northeast Harbor Mount Desert, ME 04662
Google Maps

Phone: (207) 276-5531

Clerk: Claire Marie Woolfolk

www.mtdesert.org

Lakes

Town that contains the DEP lake point. A pond on the town line can be listed in the other town.

LakeAcresMax depth

Long Pond 937 acres —

Echo Lake 236 acres —

Jordan Pond 186 acres —

Somes Pond 103 acres —

Hodgdon Pond 45 acres —

Upper Hadlock Pond 38 acres —

Lower Hadlock Pond 37 acres —

Round Pond 36 acres —

Long Pond 34 acres —

Little Echo Lake 12 acres —

Little Round Pond 12 acres —

unnamed pond 10 acres —

Mountains

Summit point inside this town polygon. A peak on the line can land in the next town.

SummitElevation

Sargent Mountain 1,362 ft

Pemetic Mountain 1,237 ft

Penobscot Mountain 1,184 ft

Gilmore Peak 1,024 ft

Deer by season

2025 2

2024 1

2023 0

2022 5

2021 1

2020 4

2019 3

2018 6

2017 15

2016 5

Registered deer, Maine IFW. Zero can mean a closed town, not an empty woods. District is the town center. A town on the line may include a second district.

Beaches

No Active Advisory Seal Harbor

Maine Healthy Beaches. Advisory is the latest posted status, Memorial Day to Labor Day. The town posts the sign.