Bern Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m410 ft 125 m270 ft 85 m200 ft 60 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bern Township sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 270–540 ft
Lowest
200 ft 60 m
on the southeast side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on Seidels Hill
Average
380 ft 115 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bern Township spans about 540 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Seidels Hill | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (RDG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 343 ft105 m |
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the middle of Bern Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 6,787 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.3 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 351 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3963° N, 75.9930° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Reading Regional/Carl A Spaatz Field (RDG) 343 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 19506 19533 19601 19605
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Spring Ridge380 ft
- Bern Township360 ft
- South Temple350 ft
- Muhlenberg Township340 ft
- Riverview Park330 ft
- Ontelaunee Township320 ft
- Colony Park320 ft
- Fox Chase320 ft
- Muhlenberg Park290 ft
- Greenfields290 ft
- Penn State Berks270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,259th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Berks County94th highest of 130
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Penn1,119 ft
- Deer Path Hill1,070 ft
- Irish Mountain1,060 ft
- Scull Hill920 ft
- Seidels Hill740 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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.