Adams County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 630 m1,640 ft 500 m1,430 ft 435 m1,000 ft 305 m580 ft 175 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Adams County averages about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 360 ft on the south side to 2,060 ft on the northwest side.
Average elevation
740 ft 225 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,060 ft 630 m
on the northwest side
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the south side
Adams County spans about 1,700 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
25 mi west to east through Gettysburg.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 107,914 2024 est.
- Land area
- 518.6 sq mi + 3.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 208 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Piedmont 62%, Blue Ridge 38%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Franklin County890 ft
- Adams County740 ft
- Cumberland County700 ft
- Carroll County, MD650 ft
- York County610 ft
- Frederick County, MD610 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Pennsylvania53rd highest of 66
- Counties in the United States1,939th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Sier Hill1,990 ft
- Strasbaugh Hill1,980 ft
- Ram Hill1,960 ft
- Rocky Knob1,930 ft
- Wolf Hill, Adams County1,920 ft
All 47 towns in Adams County by typical elevation
- Hamiltonban Township970 ft
- Franklin Township, Adams County960 ft
- Menallen Township, Adams County930 ft
- Idaville910 ft
- Gardners840 ft
- Berwick Township770 ft
- Bendersville760 ft
- Cashtown700 ft
- Arendtsville690 ft
- Huntington Township690 ft
- Aspers660 ft
- Union Township, Adams County660 ft
- Carroll Valley660 ft
- Orrtanna660 ft
- Biglerville650 ft
- McKnightstown640 ft
- York Springs620 ft
- Butler Township, Adams County620 ft
- Littlestown620 ft
- Highland Township, Adams County610 ft
- Tyrone Township600 ft
- Fairfield600 ft
- Bonneauville600 ft
- Liberty Township, Adams County590 ft
- Midway590 ft
- Germany Township580 ft
- Table Rock580 ft
- Hunterstown570 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County560 ft
- McSherrystown560 ft
- Conewago Township, Adams County550 ft
- Oxford Township550 ft
- New Oxford550 ft
- Straban Township550 ft
- Heidlersburg550 ft
- Abbottstown550 ft
- Latimore Township550 ft
- Cumberland Township530 ft
- Lake Meade530 ft
- Hamilton Township, Adams County520 ft
- Gettysburg520 ft
- Mount Joy Township, Adams County520 ft
- Lake Heritage520 ft
- Reading Township510 ft
- Freedom Township, Adams County500 ft
- Hampton490 ft
- East Berlin430 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 39.8296° N, 77.0379° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.