Oldtown, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 205 m640 ft 195 m630 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 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
Oldtown sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 570–650 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the east side
Highest
680 ft 205 m
on the north side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Oldtown spans about 140 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 680 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oldtown | 560 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 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 Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 116 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 313 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5415° N, 78.6114° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21555
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pleasant Grove1,120 ft
- Wiley Ford, WV750 ft
- Green Spring, WV730 ft
- Springfield, WV720 ft
- Cumberland720 ft
- Fort Ashby, WV710 ft
- Spring Gap670 ft
- Carpendale, WV670 ft
- Ridgeley, WV620 ft
- Oldtown590 ft
- Paw Paw, WV580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland95th highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany Countylowest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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.
- Oldtown 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.