Bel Air, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m300 ft 90 m250 ft 75 m220 ft 70 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bel Air sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 310–390 ft
Lowest
220 ft 70 m
on the southwest side
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Average
340 ft 105 m
all land inside town limits
Bel Air spans about 210 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 430 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 220 ft70 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bel Air | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (0W3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi east of the town limits | 412 ft126 m |
| Average of all land | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Harford County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 10,395 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 3,421 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5359° N, 76.3483° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harford County (0W3) 412 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21014
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jarrettsville610 ft
- Fallston480 ft
- Bel Air North410 ft
- Pleasant Hills380 ft
- Bel Air350 ft
- Kingsville290 ft
- Bel Air South260 ft
- Riverside81 ft
- Edgewood81 ft
- Abingdon81 ft
- Joppatowne63 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland210th highest of 536
- Towns in Harford County6th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Sugar Hill450 ft
- Schoolhouse Hill380 ft
- Cedar Hill270 ft
- Mountain Hill220 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.