Point of Rocks, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m350 ft 105 m320 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 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
Point of Rocks sits at about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 90 m
most residents: 260–320 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the southwest side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Point of Rocks spans about 180 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Point of Rocks | 250 ft75 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Frederick County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 1,886 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,684 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2759° N, 77.5392° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21777
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Burkittsville550 ft
- Garretts Mill540 ft
- Jefferson540 ft
- Lovettsville, VA490 ft
- Rosemont480 ft
- Brunswick430 ft
- Waterford, VA410 ft
- Buckeystown340 ft
- Adamstown320 ft
- Ballenger Creek310 ft
- Point of Rocks290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland237th highest of 536
- Towns in Frederick Countylowest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sugarloaf3,450 ft
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.
- Point of Rocks 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.