North Kensington, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m400 ft 120 m370 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m250 ft 75 m220 ft 65 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
North Kensington sits at about 340 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
340 ft 105 m
most residents: 300–400 ft
Lowest
220 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the east side
Average
330 ft 100 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Kensington spans about 240 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 | 340 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 220 ft65 m |
| Airport (DCA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi south of the CDP boundary | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 330 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the middle of North Kensington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 9,497 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 6,344 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0392° N, 77.0716° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl (DCA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 20895 20902
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aspen Hill390 ft
- Glenmont390 ft
- Wheaton370 ft
- Forest Glen350 ft
- North Kensington340 ft
- North Bethesda340 ft
- Garrett Park320 ft
- Chevy Chase View300 ft
- Kensington300 ft
- North Chevy Chase280 ft
- South Kensington280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland215th highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County34th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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).
- 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.
- North Kensington 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.