Silver Spring, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m320 ft 95 m280 ft 85 m210 ft 65 m140 ft 40 m100 ft 30 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
Silver Spring sits at about 290 ft (90 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 90 m
most residents: 240–340 ft
Lowest
100 ft 30 m
on the northeast side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Silver Spring spans about 290 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 | 290 ft90 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 100 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Silver Spring | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (DCA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi south of the CDP boundary | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 81,015 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.9 sq mi
- Density
- 10,280 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9907° N, 77.0261° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl (DCA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 20815 20901 20903 20910 20912
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Forest Glen350 ft
- Chevy Chase Section Three350 ft
- Four Corners330 ft
- Martin's Additions320 ft
- Chevy Chase Section Five310 ft
- Silver Spring290 ft
- Chevy Chase290 ft
- North Chevy Chase280 ft
- Takoma Park230 ft
- Langley Park170 ft
- Chillum100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland241st highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County51st highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Hunting Hill515 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.
- Silver Spring 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.