Riverside, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
180 ft 55 m130 ft 40 m110 ft 35 m67 ft 20 m23 ft 7 m0 ft 0 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
Riverside sits at about 81 ft (25 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
81 ft 25 m
most residents: 38–130 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the southwest side
Highest
180 ft 55 m
on the north side
Average
67 ft 21 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Riverside 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 | 81 ft25 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 180 ft55 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riverside | 79 ft24 m |
| Airport (0W3) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi north of the CDP boundary | 412 ft126 m |
| Average of all land | 67 ft21 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Harford County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 7,021 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,687 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4737° N, 76.2413° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harford County (0W3) 412 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21017
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bel Air North410 ft
- Pleasant Hills380 ft
- Bel Air350 ft
- Bel Air South260 ft
- Aberdeen100 ft
- Riverside81 ft
- Edgewood81 ft
- Abingdon81 ft
- Aberdeen Proving Ground66 ft
- Joppatowne63 ft
- Perryman26 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland372nd highest of 536
- Towns in Harford County11th highest of 16
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Felix441 ft
- Schoolhouse Hill380 ft
- Cedar Hill270 ft
- Mountain Hill220 ft
- Boothby Hill72 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.
- Riverside 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.