Ocean, MD Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,830 ft 560 m1,800 ft 550 m1,790 ft 545 m1,760 ft 535 m1,730 ft 530 m1,720 ft 525 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
Ocean sits at about 1,740 ft (530 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,740 ft 530 m
few residents
Lowest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,830 ft 560 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,750 ft 535 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Ocean spans about 110 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,740 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,830 ft560 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Average of all land | 1,750 ft535 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the middle of Ocean.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 33 2020 Census
- Land area
- under 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 750 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6031° N, 78.9452° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- North Branch Potomac River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Vale Summit2,130 ft
- Midlothian2,020 ft
- Carlos2,010 ft
- Klondike1,950 ft
- Shaft1,810 ft
- Woodland1,780 ft
- National1,770 ft
- Ocean1,740 ft
- Midland1,720 ft
- Gilmore1,670 ft
- Lonaconing1,570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland23rd highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany County11th 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 median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Ocean 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.