Ernstville, MD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
470 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m390 ft 120 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
Ernstville sits at about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
420 ft 130 m
few residents
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
near the middle
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ernstville spans about 80 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 420 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ernstville | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (W35) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 413 ft126 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 58 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 389 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6329° N, 78.0267° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Potomac Airpark (W35) 413 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21711
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warren Township, Franklin County, PA780 ft
- Hedgesville, WV640 ft
- Clear Spring570 ft
- Indian Springs530 ft
- Pinesburg480 ft
- Charlton480 ft
- Pecktonville470 ft
- Falling Waters, WV460 ft
- Big Spring450 ft
- Big Pool430 ft
- Ernstville420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland174th highest of 536
- Towns in Washington County57th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 390 ft at 39.6321° N, 78.0282° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Ernstville 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.