Galena, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
79 ft 24 m65 ft 20 m58 ft 18 m44 ft 14 m30 ft 9 m23 ft 7 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Galena sits at about 66 ft (20 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
66 ft 20 m
most residents: 62–69 ft
Lowest
23 ft 7 m
on the east side
Highest
79 ft 24 m
on the southeast side
Average
63 ft 19 m
all land inside town limits
Galena spans about 56 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 | 66 ft20 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 79 ft24 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 23 ft7 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Galena | 69 ft21 m |
| Average of all land | 63 ft19 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Kent County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 538 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,089 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3407° N, 75.8788° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21635
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Worton77 ft
- Still Pond77 ft
- Cecilton71 ft
- Betterton71 ft
- Kennedyville70 ft
- Galena66 ft
- Sudlersville66 ft
- Townsend, DE60 ft
- Middletown, DE59 ft
- Crumpton26 ft
- Millington26 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland390th highest of 536
- Towns in Kent County6th highest of 14
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rhodes Mountain300 ft
- Black Hill, Cecil County280 ft
- Bull Mountain270 ft
- Mauldin Mountain260 ft
- Daves Hill80 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.