Zihlman, MD Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 650 m1,980 ft 605 m1,900 ft 580 m1,740 ft 530 m1,590 ft 485 m1,510 ft 460 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
Zihlman sits at about 1,670 ft (510 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,670 ft 510 m
most residents: 1,640–1,960 ft
Lowest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,140 ft 650 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,780 ft 545 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Zihlman spans about 630 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 | 1,670 ft510 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,140 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Zihlman | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Airport (CBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 758 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 1,780 ft545 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States
- Population
- 331 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 220 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.6681° N, 78.9150° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Greater Cumberland Regional (CBE) 758 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 21532
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Finzel2,660 ft
- Vale Summit2,130 ft
- Midlothian2,020 ft
- Carlos2,010 ft
- Frostburg2,000 ft
- Grahamtown1,900 ft
- Eckhart Mines1,850 ft
- Shaft1,810 ft
- Zihlman1,670 ft
- Clarysville1,530 ft
- Mount Savage1,350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Maryland25th highest of 536
- Towns in Allegany County13th highest of 44
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- High Knob2,640 ft
- High Point2,590 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.
- Zihlman 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.