Dargan, MD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
700 ft 215 m630 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m520 ft 155 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
Dargan sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–600 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
550 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Dargan spans about 290 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dargan | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 550 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 163 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 553 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3773° N, 77.7330° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21782
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Yarrowsburg670 ft
- Trego-Rohrersville Station650 ft
- Gapland640 ft
- Mount Briar620 ft
- Brownsville580 ft
- Dargan540 ft
- Garretts Mill540 ft
- Bolivar, WV490 ft
- Harpers Ferry, WV460 ft
- Sandy Hook420 ft
- Antietam330 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland112th highest of 536
- Towns in Washington County34th highest of 61
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.
- Dargan 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.