Taneytown, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 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
Taneytown sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 500–550 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the east side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Taneytown spans about 150 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Taneytown | 500 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Carroll County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 8,293 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 2,474 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6579° N, 77.1744° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Monocacy River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 21787
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Adams County, PA660 ft
- Littlestown, PA620 ft
- Bonneauville, PA600 ft
- Germany Township, PA580 ft
- Taneytown530 ft
- Mount Joy Township, Adams County, PA520 ft
- Lake Heritage, PA520 ft
- New Windsor510 ft
- Freedom Township, Adams County, PA500 ft
- Emmitsburg430 ft
- Union Bridge420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland119th highest of 536
- Towns in Carroll County6th highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Carrick Knob1,620 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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.