Perryville, MD Elevation & Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Perryville, Maryland, shaded from sea level level on Chesapeake Bay to 420 ft on Mount Ararat
Elevation
420 ft 130 m320 ft 95 m260 ft 80 m160 ft 50 m53 ft 16 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
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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
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The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
Measure
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Town area
Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Perryville sits at about 97 ft (30 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation
97 ft 30 m
most residents: 28–160 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on Chesapeake Bay
Highest
420 ft 130 m
on Mount Ararat
Average
130 ft 40 m
all land inside town limits

Perryville spans about 420 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.

FigureElevation
Typical
Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower
97 ft30 m
Highest point
Inside town limits, on Mount Ararat
420 ft130 m
Lowest point
Where the land meets Chesapeake Bay
0 ft0 m
Town center
USGS map point for Perryville
47 ft14 m
Airport (0W3)
FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi west of the town limits
412 ft126 m
Average of all land130 ft40 m

Elevation profile, south to north

3.0 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Topographic elevation map of Perryville, Maryland, shaded from sea level level on Chesapeake Bay to 420 ft on Mount Ararat
Town limits (dashed) over shaded terrain, with contours every 40 ft (12 m).
Location
Town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States
Population
4,510 2024 est.
Land area
3.2 sq mi
Density
1,398 per sq mi
Coordinates
39.5601° N, 76.0713° W
Time zone
Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region
Piedmont
Drains to
Atlantic Ocean
Airport
Harford County (0W3) 412 ft
ZIP codes 2
21903 21904
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

  1. Rising Sun370 ft
  2. Darlington310 ft
  3. Havre de Grace140 ft
  4. Port Deposit120 ft
  5. Aberdeen100 ft
  6. Perryville97 ft
  7. Riverside81 ft
  8. Aberdeen Proving Ground66 ft
  9. North East58 ft
  10. Charlestown58 ft
  11. Perryman26 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

  • Mount Felix441 ft
  • Mount Ararat420 ft
  • Foys Hill300 ft
  • Bull Mountain270 ft
  • Mauldin Mountain260 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).
  • Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 0 ft at 39.5718° N, 76.0804° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
  • 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.