Havre de Grace, MD Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Havre de Grace, Maryland, shaded from sea level level on Chesapeake Bay to 430 ft on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Elevation
430 ft 130 m320 ft 100 m270 ft 80 m160 ft 50 m53 ft 16 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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City area
Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Havre de Grace sits at about 140 ft (40 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
140 ft 40 m
most residents: 25–280 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Chesapeake Bay
Highest
430 ft 130 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
150 ft 45 m
all land inside city limits

Havre de Grace spans about 430 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
140 ft40 m
Highest point
Inside city limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
430 ft130 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets Chesapeake Bay
0 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Havre de Grace
38 ft12 m
Airport (0W3)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi west of the city limits
412 ft126 m
Average of all land150 ft45 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.9 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Havre de Grace, Maryland, shaded from sea level level on Chesapeake Bay to 430 ft on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
City limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 40 ft (12 m).
Location
City in Harford County, Maryland, United States
Population
15,222 2024 est.
Land area
5.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
Density
2,560 per sq mi
Coordinates
39.5493° N, 76.0916° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Coastal Plain
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Harford County (0W3) 412 ft
ZIP codes 1
21078
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Rising Sun370 ft
  2. Darlington310 ft
  3. Havre de Grace140 ft
  4. Port Deposit120 ft
  5. Aberdeen100 ft
  6. Perryville97 ft
  7. Riverside81 ft
  8. Aberdeen Proving Ground66 ft
  9. North East58 ft
  10. Charlestown58 ft
  11. Perryman26 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Mount Felix441 ft
  • Mount Ararat420 ft
  • Schoolhouse Hill380 ft
  • Foys Hill300 ft
  • Boothby Hill72 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).
  • 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, −1 ft at 39.5354° N, 76.0921° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.