Bel Air, Allegany County, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 450 m1,280 ft 390 m1,180 ft 360 m980 ft 300 m780 ft 235 m680 ft 205 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
Bel Air, Allegany County sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 750–990 ft
Lowest
680 ft 205 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Bel Air, Allegany County spans about 800 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 680 ft205 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bel Air, Allegany County | 690 ft210 m |
| Airport (CBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.1 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 758 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 1,689 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 2,459 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5731° N, 78.8497° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Branch Potomac River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greater Cumberland Regional (CBE) 758 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21502
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vale Summit2,130 ft
- National1,770 ft
- Gilmore1,670 ft
- Clarysville1,530 ft
- Bel Air, Allegany County890 ft
- Rawlings800 ft
- Potomac Park770 ft
- Wiley Ford, WV750 ft
- Bier730 ft
- Bowling Green700 ft
- Cresaptown650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland51st highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany County32nd highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 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.
- Bel Air, Allegany County 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.