Pondsville, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m770 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 200 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
Pondsville sits at about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 220 m
most residents: 730–880 ft
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
on the northwest side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Pondsville spans about 320 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 650 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pondsville | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
| Nearest peak Quirauk Mountain, 6.2 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 2,140 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 139 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 450 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6207° N, 77.5878° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21783
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Edgemont830 ft
- Jugtown810 ft
- Smithsburg790 ft
- Pondsville730 ft
- Bagtown720 ft
- Cavetown690 ft
- Greensburg690 ft
- Mount Aetna660 ft
- Chewsville650 ft
- Robinwood590 ft
- Beaver Creek550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland66th highest of 536
- Towns in Washington County7th highest of 61
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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.
- Pondsville 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. All public domain.