Ridgely, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
79 ft 24 m71 ft 22 m66 ft 20 m58 ft 18 m50 ft 15 m46 ft 14 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ridgely sits at about 60 ft (18 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
60 ft 18 m
most residents: 54–64 ft
Lowest
46 ft 14 m
on the southeast side
Highest
67 ft 21 m
near the middle
Average
58 ft 18 m
all land inside town limits
Ridgely is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 21 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 60 ft18 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, near the middle | 67 ft21 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 46 ft14 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ridgely | 66 ft20 m |
| Airport (RJD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 64 ft20 m |
| Average of all land | 58 ft18 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Caroline County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 1,646 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 883 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9479° N, 75.8844° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Choptank River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gooden Airpark (RJD) 64 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21660
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ridgely60 ft
- Cordova57 ft
- Henderson56 ft
- Goldsboro55 ft
- Centreville50 ft
- Denton45 ft
- Hillsboro44 ft
- Greensboro37 ft
- Town of Queen Anne33 ft
- Williston20 ft
- West Denton11 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland400th highest of 536
- Towns in Caroline Countyhighest of 12
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Opossum Hill61 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).
- 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. All public domain.