Salisbury, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
69 ft 21 m51 ft 16 m43 ft 13 m26 ft 8 m9 ft 3 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Salisbury sits at about 31 ft (9 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
31 ft 9 m
most residents: 19–39 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
on the southwest side
Highest
69 ft 21 m
on the north side
Average
32 ft 10 m
all land inside city limits
Salisbury spans about 69 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 | 31 ft9 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 69 ft21 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Salisbury | 26 ft8 m |
| Airport (SBY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi east of the city limits | 53 ft16 m |
| Average of all land | 32 ft10 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 33,616 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.9 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,425 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3607° N, 75.5994° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Wicomico River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional (SBY) 53 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 21801 21804
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parsonsburg76 ft
- Delmar, DE50 ft
- Pittsville48 ft
- Delmar48 ft
- Hebron39 ft
- Fruitland35 ft
- Salisbury31 ft
- Eden26 ft
- Mardela Springs24 ft
- Allen20 ft
- Quantico13 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland444th highest of 536
- Towns in Wicomico County8th highest of 19
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Backbone Hill49 ft
- Ryles Hill30 ft
- Dunker Hill16 ft
- Delia Hill11 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, −1 ft at 38.3635° N, 75.6082° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.