Reading, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m630 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m530 ft 160 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Reading sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 550–760 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the southeast side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Reading spans about 280 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Reading | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (LUK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi south of the city limits | 482 ft147 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 10,482 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3,628 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2237° N, 84.4422° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mill Creek → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cincinnati Municipal/Lunken Field (LUK) 482 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 45215
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dillonvale820 ft
- Evendale760 ft
- Ridgewood750 ft
- Amberley730 ft
- Wyoming670 ft
- Golf Manor660 ft
- Reading650 ft
- Woodlawn650 ft
- Lincoln Heights630 ft
- Lockland570 ft
- Arlington Heights560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio2,373rd highest of 2,572
- Towns in Hamilton County72nd highest of 98
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob, Hamilton County891 ft
- Brighton Hill890 ft
- Goat Hill880 ft
- Galley Hill880 ft
- Mount Adams820 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.