Reisterstown, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m620 ft 190 m570 ft 170 m540 ft 165 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
Reisterstown sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 600–700 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the southeast side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
on the south side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Reisterstown spans about 220 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Reisterstown | 730 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 26,822 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.1 sq mi
- Density
- 5,267 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4695° N, 76.8294° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 21117 21136
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hampstead840 ft
- Reisterstown650 ft
- Eldersburg570 ft
- Owings Mills560 ft
- Randallstown540 ft
- Sykesville530 ft
- Garrison510 ft
- Milford Mill490 ft
- Mays Chapel490 ft
- Cockeysville460 ft
- Pikesville460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland79th highest of 536
- Towns in Baltimore Countyhighest of 32
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Spook Hill790 ft
- The Bunker590 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Howard County540 ft
- Federal Hill, Baltimore city82 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.
- Reisterstown 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.