Arbutus, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
360 ft 110 m270 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m140 ft 45 m53 ft 16 m9 ft 3 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Arbutus sits at about 140 ft (45 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
140 ft 45 m
most residents: 77–200 ft
Lowest
8 ft 3 m
on the south side
Highest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Arbutus spans about 352 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 | 140 ft45 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 8 ft3 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arbutus | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (BWI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi south of the CDP boundary | 143 ft44 m |
| Average of all land | 130 ft40 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 21,655 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi
- Density
- 3,318 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2546° N, 76.7000° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 143 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21227
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodlawn440 ft
- Catonsville420 ft
- Ellicott City410 ft
- Ilchester330 ft
- Baltimore180 ft
- Elkridge180 ft
- Arbutus140 ft
- Linthicum140 ft
- Brooklyn Park110 ft
- Lansdowne100 ft
- Baltimore Highlands90 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland311th highest of 536
- Towns in Baltimore County23rd highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Lawyers Hill270 ft
- Mount Misery150 ft
- Federal Hill, Baltimore city82 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.
- Arbutus 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.