Mount Airy, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 175 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mount Airy sits at about 760 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 235 m
most residents: 680–810 ft
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the southwest side
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside town limits
Mount Airy spans about 280 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 | 760 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Airy | 780 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Carroll and Frederick counties, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 9,914 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2,391 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3762° N, 77.1547° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21771
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Airy760 ft
- Damascus690 ft
- Lisbon620 ft
- Green Valley600 ft
- Libertytown540 ft
- Sykesville530 ft
- New Market530 ft
- Monrovia510 ft
- Linganore450 ft
- Bartonsville400 ft
- Spring Ridge390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland62nd highest of 536
- Towns in Carroll County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Annapolis Rock, Howard County600 ft
- Laurel Hill590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.