Mount Aetna, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m760 ft 235 m720 ft 220 m650 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m530 ft 160 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
Mount Aetna sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 570–690 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
630 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mount Aetna spans about 310 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Aetna | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 630 ft195 m |
| Nearest peak Quirauk Mountain, 7.9 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 2,140 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 580 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 410 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6023° N, 77.6242° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 21740 21742
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jugtown810 ft
- Pondsville730 ft
- Bagtown720 ft
- Cavetown690 ft
- Mount Lena660 ft
- Mount Aetna660 ft
- Chewsville650 ft
- Robinwood590 ft
- San Mar570 ft
- Beaver Creek550 ft
- Funkstown490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland78th highest of 536
- Towns in Washington County14th 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.
- Mount Aetna 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.