North Laurel, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
400 ft 120 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m230 ft 70 m160 ft 45 m120 ft 35 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
North Laurel sits at about 260 ft (80 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
260 ft 80 m
most residents: 190–340 ft
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Highest
400 ft 120 m
on the northeast side
Average
270 ft 80 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
North Laurel 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 | 260 ft80 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 400 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 120 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Laurel | 300 ft90 m |
| Airport (BWI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi east of the CDP boundary | 143 ft44 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Howard County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 25,379 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,915 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1390° N, 76.8705° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Patuxent River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall (BWI) 143 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 20723
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Burtonsville440 ft
- Fulton410 ft
- Columbia380 ft
- Scaggsville360 ft
- West Laurel360 ft
- Savage280 ft
- North Laurel260 ft
- Laurel220 ft
- Jessup210 ft
- South Laurel180 ft
- Maryland City180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland255th highest of 536
- Towns in Howard County9th highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Lawyers Hill270 ft
- Mount Misery150 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.
- North Laurel 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.