Clarksburg, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m700 ft 215 m650 ft 195 m540 ft 165 m440 ft 135 m380 ft 115 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
Clarksburg sits at about 580 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 180 m
most residents: 520–660 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Average
570 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Clarksburg spans about 430 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 | 580 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (GAI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the middle of Clarksburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 29,051 2020 Census
- Land area
- 9.6 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,013 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2286° N, 77.2610° 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 3
- 20841 20871 20876
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Damascus690 ft
- Ten Mile Creek630 ft
- Green Valley600 ft
- Laytonsville590 ft
- Clarksburg580 ft
- Barnesville520 ft
- Washington Grove520 ft
- Flower Hill470 ft
- Germantown440 ft
- Gaithersburg430 ft
- Montgomery Village430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland100th highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County4th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.
- Clarksburg 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.