Mays Chapel, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m550 ft 165 m500 ft 150 m410 ft 125 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 80 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
Mays Chapel sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 340–580 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the southwest side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Average
450 ft 140 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mays Chapel spans about 370 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mays Chapel | 460 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 15,655 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi
- Density
- 3,491 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4332° N, 76.6494° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21093
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Owings Mills560 ft
- Garrison510 ft
- Mays Chapel490 ft
- Cockeysville460 ft
- Pikesville460 ft
- Towson410 ft
- Timonium400 ft
- Hampton390 ft
- Lutherville370 ft
- Parkville360 ft
- Carney340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland136th highest of 536
- Towns in Baltimore County6th highest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Spook Hill790 ft
- The Bunker590 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Federal Hill, Baltimore city82 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.
- Mays Chapel 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.