Elevation of Columbia, Maryland, United States of America

Columbia, Maryland, United States of America is 107 m (351 ft) above sea level.

Columbia's height from sea level is 107 metres, or 351 feet. Wikidata records 124 m.

Ground within 5 km

90 m – 144 m

Mean 116 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 54 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 22

among the towns of Maryland, and 544th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Ellicott City

8.9 km to the NE, at 79 m, 28 m lower.

Cross-section through Columbia

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Columbia; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 129 m at 13 km west to 57 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 110 m at 13 km north to 66 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Columbia, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 54 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Columbia

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ellicott City	8.9 km	NE	79 m (259 ft)	−28 m
Catonsville	13.5 km	NE	144 m (472 ft)	+37 m
Severn	15.9 km	SE	53 m (174 ft)	−54 m
Odenton	19.2 km	SE	51 m (167 ft)	−56 m
Glen Burnie	20.9 km	E	18 m (59 ft)	−89 m

Peaks and passes near Columbia

Annapolis Rock, peak at 184 m (604 ft), 24.8 km to the W — 77 m above the town.
Chestnut Hill, peak at 163 m (535 ft), 11.6 km to the NE — 56 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Columbia is

Latitude 39.2037144, longitude -76.8610462. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Columbia's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.