Atglen, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m570 ft 170 m520 ft 155 m470 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Atglen sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 460–510 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the south side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Average
500 ft 150 m
all land inside borough limits
Atglen spans about 200 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Atglen | 480 ft150 m |
| Airport (MQS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi east of the borough limits | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,320 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,509 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9493° N, 75.9736° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Chester County G O Carlson (MQS) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19310
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Sadsbury Township670 ft
- Sadsbury Township620 ft
- Gap610 ft
- Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County590 ft
- Cochranville590 ft
- West Fallowfield Township590 ft
- Highland Township570 ft
- Parkesburg550 ft
- Christiana490 ft
- Atglen490 ft
- Pomeroy470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,889th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Chester County36th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gap Hill, Lancaster County830 ft
- Stony Hill, Lancaster County770 ft
- Oak Hill, Lancaster County630 ft
- Bunker Hill, Lancaster County560 ft
- Dry Hill, Lancaster County560 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough 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 borough limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 440 ft at 39.9415° N, 75.9776° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.