Chevy Chase Section Three, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m350 ft 105 m330 ft 100 m320 ft 95 m310 ft 95 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Chevy Chase Section Three 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: 330–370 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the northeast side
Highest
370 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Average
340 ft 105 m
all land inside village limits
Chevy Chase Section Three spans about 60 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 village limits, on the southwest side | 370 ft115 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chevy Chase Section Three | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (DCA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi south of the village limits | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 340 ft105 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 802 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 6,914 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9790° N, 77.0739° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl (DCA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 20815
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chevy Chase Section Three350 ft
- Chevy Chase Village340 ft
- Town of Chevy Chase330 ft
- Martin's Additions320 ft
- Bethesda320 ft
- Chevy Chase Section Five310 ft
- Friendship Heights Village290 ft
- Somerset290 ft
- Chevy Chase290 ft
- North Chevy Chase280 ft
- South Kensington280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland212th highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County33rd highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Hunting Hill515 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.