Cumberland, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,280 ft 390 m1,160 ft 355 m930 ft 285 m700 ft 215 m590 ft 180 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cumberland sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 640–910 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
on the northwest side
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside city limits
Cumberland spans about 910 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cumberland | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (CBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi south of the city limits | 758 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 18,643 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,836 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6529° N, 78.7625° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- 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
- Pleasant Grove1,120 ft
- La Vale940 ft
- Bowmans Addition910 ft
- Corriganville800 ft
- Ellerslie780 ft
- Potomac Park770 ft
- Wiley Ford, WV750 ft
- Cumberland720 ft
- Bowling Green700 ft
- Carpendale, WV670 ft
- Ridgeley, WV620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland68th highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany County39th highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.