McCoole, MD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,210 ft 370 m1,110 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m940 ft 290 m840 ft 255 m780 ft 240 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
McCoole sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 850–1,070 ft
Lowest
780 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
McCoole 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.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 780 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McCoole | 820 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 449 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 320 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4465° N, 78.9722° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Branch Potomac River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 21557 21562
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moscow1,310 ft
- Barton1,270 ft
- Franklin1,130 ft
- Danville1,100 ft
- Bloomington1,090 ft
- Westernport1,090 ft
- Luke1,000 ft
- Piedmont, WV980 ft
- McCoole900 ft
- Dawson880 ft
- Keyser, WV860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland50th highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany County31st highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 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.
- McCoole 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. All public domain.