Caroline County, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
120 ft 35 m88 ft 27 m73 ft 22 m43 ft 13 m13 ft 4 m−2 ft −1 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Caroline County averages about 45 ft (14 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 2 ft below sea level on the south side to 120 ft near the middle.
Average elevation
45 ft 14 m
all land inside the county
Highest
120 ft 35 m
near the middle
Lowest
−2 ft −1 m
on the south side
Caroline County spans about 122 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 45 ft14 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, near the middle | 120 ft35 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | −2 ft−1 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through Denton.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Maryland, United States
- Population
- 34,248 2024 est.
- Land area
- 319.4 sq mi + 6.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 107 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Queen Anne's County47 ft
- Caroline County45 ft
- Kent County, DE39 ft
- Sussex County, DE32 ft
- Talbot County28 ft
- Dorchester County11 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Maryland18th highest of 23
- Counties in the United States3,040th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Opossum Hill61 ft
All 13 towns in Caroline County by typical elevation
- Templeville partly67 ft
- Ridgely60 ft
- Marydel59 ft
- Henderson56 ft
- Goldsboro55 ft
- Denton45 ft
- Preston45 ft
- Hillsboro44 ft
- Greensboro37 ft
- Federalsburg30 ft
- Williston20 ft
- West Denton11 ft
- Choptank3 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.