Elevation of Severn, Maryland, United States of America

Severn, Maryland, United States of America is 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Severn's height from sea level is 53 metres, or 174 feet. GeoNames reads 49 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 49 m.

Ground within 5 km

29 m – 82 m

Mean 47 m across the 9.1 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 22

among the towns of Maryland, and 642nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Odenton

5.9 km to the S, at 51 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Severn

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 Severn; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 64 m at 13 km west to 19 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 54 m at 13 km north to 28 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 54 km around Severn, 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 Severn

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Odenton	5.9 km	S	51 m (167 ft)	−2 m
Glen Burnie	7 km	NE	18 m (59 ft)	−35 m
Catonsville	15.3 km	N	144 m (472 ft)	+91 m
Columbia	15.9 km	NW	107 m (351 ft)	+54 m
Bowie	16.1 km	SW	50 m (164 ft)	−3 m

Peaks and passes near Severn

Chestnut Hill, peak at 163 m (535 ft), 19.5 km to the NW — 110 m above the town.
Lawyers Hill, peak at 79 m (259 ft), 9.1 km to the N — 26 m above the town.

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

Where Severn is

Latitude 39.1370528, longitude -76.6983022. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/227_829,Severn,Maryland,United+States+of+America"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/227_829.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Severn elevation: 53 m (174 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Severn'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 49 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.