Highland, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m450 ft 140 m400 ft 125 m380 ft 115 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
Highland sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 440–520 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the west side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Highland spans about 190 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Highland | 520 ft160 m |
| Airport (BWI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi east of the CDP boundary | 143 ft44 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Howard County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 1,133 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 471 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1790° N, 76.9575° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Patuxent River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 143 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 20759 20777
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spencerville520 ft
- Highland480 ft
- Olney470 ft
- Ashton-Sandy Spring450 ft
- Burtonsville440 ft
- Cloverly430 ft
- Fulton410 ft
- Brookeville400 ft
- Columbia380 ft
- Scaggsville360 ft
- North Laurel260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland137th highest of 536
- Towns in Howard County2nd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Annapolis Rock, Howard County600 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Hunting Hill515 ft
- Lawyers Hill270 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.
- Highland 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.