Elevation of Ellicott City, Maryland, United States of America
Ellicott City, Maryland, United States of America is 79 m (259 ft) above sea level.
Ellicott City's height from sea level is 79 metres, or 259 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 55 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 121 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 95 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Maryland, and 591st of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Ellicott City
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 Ellicott City; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Ellicott City
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catonsville | 5.7 km | E | 144 m (472 ft) | +65 m |
| Columbia | 8.9 km | SW | 107 m (351 ft) | +28 m |
| Baltimore | 16.2 km | E | 19 m (62 ft) | −60 m |
| Severn | 16.9 km | SE | 53 m (174 ft) | −26 m |
| Glen Burnie | 19 km | SE | 18 m (59 ft) | −61 m |
Peaks and passes near Ellicott City
- Chestnut Hill, peak at 163 m (535 ft), 3.1 km to the N — 84 m above the town.
- The Bunker, peak at 157 m (515 ft), 22.3 km to the N — 78 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Ellicott City is
Latitude 39.2673283, longitude -76.7983067. 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 Ellicott City'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. GeoNames' reading of 55 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.