Leisure World, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 m400 ft 120 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Leisure World sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 440–480 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the south side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the north side
Average
450 ft 135 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Leisure World spans about 110 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 | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (GAI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the middle of Leisure World.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 9,215 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 8,169 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1042° N, 77.0707° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Montgomery County Airpark (GAI) 539 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 20906
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Olney470 ft
- Ashton-Sandy Spring450 ft
- Leisure World450 ft
- Cloverly430 ft
- Rockville420 ft
- Layhill390 ft
- Aspen Hill390 ft
- Glenmont390 ft
- Colesville380 ft
- Wheaton370 ft
- North Kensington340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland157th highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County12th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Annapolis Rock, Howard County600 ft
- Black Hill, Montgomery County520 ft
- Hunting Hill515 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).
- 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, 390 ft at 39.0924° N, 77.0704° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Leisure World 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.