Highfield-Cascade, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,850 ft 565 m1,650 ft 505 m1,560 ft 475 m1,360 ft 415 m1,170 ft 355 m1,070 ft 325 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
Highfield-Cascade sits at about 1,420 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,420 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,350–1,590 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,850 ft 565 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,420 ft 430 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Highfield-Cascade spans about 780 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 | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,850 ft565 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the CDP boundary | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 1,420 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the middle of Highfield-Cascade.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 1,082 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 625 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7159° N, 77.4873° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21719
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Ritchie1,450 ft
- Highfield-Cascade1,420 ft
- Blue Ridge Summit, PA1,340 ft
- Sabillasville1,120 ft
- Edgemont830 ft
- Pen Mar, PA830 ft
- Ringgold740 ft
- Rouzerville, PA730 ft
- Washington Township, PA730 ft
- Greensburg690 ft
- Wayne Heights, PA660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland33rd highest of 536
- Towns in Washington County2nd highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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).
- 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.
- Highfield-Cascade 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.