Waldorf, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
270 ft 80 m220 ft 65 m200 ft 60 m150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m89 ft 27 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Waldorf sits at about 200 ft (60 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
200 ft 60 m
most residents: 190–210 ft
Lowest
89 ft 27 m
on the southeast side
Highest
270 ft 80 m
on the southeast side
Average
190 ft 60 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Waldorf spans about 181 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 | 200 ft60 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 270 ft80 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 89 ft27 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waldorf | 210 ft65 m |
| Airport (2W5) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi west of the CDP boundary | 175 ft53 m |
| Average of all land | 190 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Charles County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 81,410 2020 Census
- Land area
- 36.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,247 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6246° N, 76.9391° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Maryland (2W5) 175 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 20601 20602 20603 20646 20675 20695
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brandywine220 ft
- Waldorf200 ft
- Cedarville200 ft
- Bensville190 ft
- Bryantown180 ft
- Pomfret180 ft
- La Plata180 ft
- Accokeek170 ft
- Bryans Road160 ft
- Fort Washington99 ft
- Port Tobacco Village10 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland274th highest of 536
- Towns in Charles Countyhighest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rose Hill160 ft
- Stretchmark Hill160 ft
- Ellenboro Hill130 ft
- Ravens Crest130 ft
- Bunker Hill130 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.
- Waldorf 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. All public domain.