Ashton-Sandy Spring, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m380 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 85 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
Ashton-Sandy Spring sits at about 450 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 140 m
most residents: 370–490 ft
Lowest
270 ft 85 m
on the east side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the southeast side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ashton-Sandy Spring spans about 290 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 | 450 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 270 ft85 m |
| Airport (GAI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi west of the CDP boundary | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the middle of Ashton-Sandy Spring.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 5,746 2020 Census
- Land area
- 10.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 560 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1456° N, 77.0135° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Montgomery County Airpark (GAI) 539 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 20833 20860 20861 20905
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spencerville520 ft
- Highland480 ft
- Olney470 ft
- Ashton-Sandy Spring450 ft
- Leisure World450 ft
- Burtonsville440 ft
- Cloverly430 ft
- Fulton410 ft
- Brookeville400 ft
- Layhill390 ft
- Colesville380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland153rd highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County11th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Annapolis Rock, Howard County600 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Hunting Hill515 ft
- Lawyers Hill270 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.
- Ashton-Sandy Spring 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.