Takoma Park, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
340 ft 105 m280 ft 85 m240 ft 75 m180 ft 55 m110 ft 35 m82 ft 25 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Takoma Park sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 170–280 ft
Lowest
82 ft 25 m
on the east side
Highest
340 ft 105 m
on the northwest side
Average
220 ft 70 m
all land inside city limits
Takoma Park spans about 258 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 82 ft25 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Takoma Park | 290 ft90 m |
| Airport (DCA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.1 mi south of the city limits | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 220 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 17,856 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.1 sq mi
- Density
- 8,568 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9779° N, 77.0075° 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 1
- 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
- Silver Spring290 ft
- Takoma Park230 ft
- Adelphi180 ft
- Langley Park170 ft
- Chillum100 ft
- University Park91 ft
- Mount Rainier59 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland263rd highest of 536
- Towns in Montgomery County57th 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 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, 81 ft at 38.9774° N, 76.9885° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.