Adamstown, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
350 ft 105 m330 ft 100 m320 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m280 ft 85 m270 ft 80 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Adamstown sits at about 320 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
320 ft 100 m
most residents: 300–350 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the southwest side
Highest
350 ft 105 m
on the east side
Average
310 ft 95 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Adamstown spans about 80 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 | 320 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 350 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Adamstown | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (FDK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 309 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 310 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Frederick County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 2,331 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2,191 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3109° N, 77.4747° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Frederick Municipal (FDK) 309 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21710
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Braddock Heights790 ft
- Jefferson540 ft
- Barnesville520 ft
- Rosemont480 ft
- Urbana450 ft
- Brunswick430 ft
- Buckeystown340 ft
- Frederick330 ft
- Adamstown320 ft
- Ballenger Creek310 ft
- Point of Rocks290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland227th highest of 536
- Towns in Frederick County24th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Adamstown is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.