Frostburg, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,620 ft 800 m2,420 ft 740 m2,320 ft 705 m2,120 ft 645 m1,910 ft 585 m1,810 ft 555 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
Frostburg sits at about 2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,000 ft 610 m
most residents: 1,920–2,170 ft
Lowest
1,810 ft 555 m
on the east side
Highest
2,620 ft 800 m
on the northwest side
Average
2,030 ft 620 m
all land inside city limits
Frostburg spans about 810 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 | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 2,620 ft800 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,810 ft555 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Frostburg | 2,070 ft630 m |
| Airport (CBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.6 mi east of the city limits | 758 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 2,030 ft620 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 6,972 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,085 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6581° N, 78.9284° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greater Cumberland Regional (CBE) 758 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vale Summit2,130 ft
- Midlothian2,020 ft
- Carlos2,010 ft
- Frostburg2,000 ft
- Grahamtown1,900 ft
- Eckhart Mines1,850 ft
- Shaft1,810 ft
- Woodland1,780 ft
- National1,770 ft
- Zihlman1,670 ft
- Clarysville1,530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland16th highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany County4th highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 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.