Fort Meade, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
310 ft 95 m250 ft 75 m230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 m120 ft 40 m98 ft 30 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
Fort Meade sits at about 210 ft (65 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
210 ft 65 m
most residents: 150–260 ft
Lowest
98 ft 30 m
on the southwest side
Highest
300 ft 95 m
on the north side
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fort Meade spans about 202 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 | 210 ft65 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 300 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 98 ft30 m |
| Airport (BWI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 143 ft44 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the middle of Fort Meade.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 9,324 2020 Census
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,154 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1129° N, 76.7456° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Patuxent River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 143 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 20755 21113
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ilchester330 ft
- Savage280 ft
- North Laurel260 ft
- Laurel220 ft
- Jessup210 ft
- Fort Meade210 ft
- South Laurel180 ft
- Maryland City180 ft
- Odenton170 ft
- Severn150 ft
- Gambrills97 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland272nd highest of 536
- Towns in Anne Arundel County2nd highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Lawyers Hill270 ft
- Mount Misery150 ft
- Brewers Hill130 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).
- 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, 96 ft at 39.0926° N, 76.7693° 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.
- Fort Meade 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.