HIGHEST AND LOWEST ELEVATIONS IN MARYLANDS COUNTIES

COUNTY		HIGH		LOCATION				LOW	LOCATION

Allegany	2895		Dan's Rock				420	Potomac River at
										Sideing Hill Creek

Anne Arundel	300		Ft. Meade Rd. .25mi W of BW pkwy	0	Chesapeake Bay

Baltimore City	480		NW Corner in vicinity of		0	Baltimore Harbor
				Reisterstown Road

Baltimore	966		Mason-Dixon Line near			0	Chesapeake Bay
				Stiltz, PA. On Middletown Road

Calvert		168		Sunderland at jct. Route 4 and 262	0	Chesapeake Bay

Caroline	79		3 mi. W of Henderson,			0	Chesapeake Bay
				N side of Bee Tree Rd.

Carroll		1120		0.4 mi. NW of Wentz			260	Patapsco River
										nr Marriottsville

Cecil		535		.25 mi. S of  Rock Springs		0	Chesapeake Bay

Charles		235		nr Bolton, 4.5 mi WNW of Waldorf	0	Potomac River

Dorchester	57		Johnson Rd., 2.5 mi. E of Williamsburg	0	Chesapeake Bay

Fredrick	1895		S. Mountain, 2 mi. NW of Wolfsville	200	Potomac River

Garrett		3360		Hoye Crest on Backbone			960	Potomac River at
				Mt. On the Md. WV border			Bloomington

Harford		803		Slate Ridge, 0.4 mi. E of Whiteford	0	Chesapeake Bay

Howard		873		1.5 mi. NW of Long Center		20	Patapsco River

Kent		102		2.25 mi. W. of Coleman			0	Chesapeake Bay

Montgomery	845		Damascus				10	Potomac River at
								        	Little Falls

Prince Georges	296		Suitland, at jct Walker			0	Potomac River
				Mill Rd. and Rollins Rd.			Patuxent River

Queen Annes	87		.5 Mi. NW of Star			0	Chesapeake Bay

St. Marys	188		New Market				0	Chesapeake Bay

Somerset	46		2 mi. NW of Friendship Church on	0	Chesapeake Bay
				Meadow Bridge Road

Talbot		78		Rt. 328, NE edge of Easton		0	Chesapeake Bay

Washington	2140		Quirauk Mt., 1.2 mi. S of Ft. Ritchie	250	Potomac River at
										Harpers Ferry

Wicomico	73		1 mi. W of Waste Gate			0	Chesapeake Bay

Worcester	65		1 mi. S of Furnace			0	Atlantic Ocean

NOTES:

The highest point in Maryland is 3,360 feet above sea level on Backbone Mountain, Garrett County.

The absolute lowest point in Maryland is a depression, often called Bloody Point Hole, 174 feet below
sea level approximately 1 mile west-southwest of the southern tip of Kent Island, Queen Anne's County.

This data was compiled by the Maryland Geological Survey					JAN 1998

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