Bethel Township, Berks County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,380 ft 420 m1,220 ft 370 m910 ft 275 m600 ft 180 m440 ft 135 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
Bethel Township, Berks County sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 490–850 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the northeast side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bethel Township, Berks County spans about 1,250 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bethel Township, Berks County | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (9D4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi south of the township boundaries | 523 ft159 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,160 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 99 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4745° N, 76.2913° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Swatara Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Deck (9D4) 523 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 17026 17067 19507
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Schuylkill County720 ft
- Schubert660 ft
- Mount Aetna590 ft
- Upper Tulpehocken Township590 ft
- Strausstown590 ft
- Rehrersburg570 ft
- Bethel Township, Berks County560 ft
- Bethel550 ft
- Tulpehocken Township550 ft
- Frystown490 ft
- New Schaefferstown460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,688th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Berks County26th highest of 130
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Little Mountain, Lebanon County1,110 ft
- Swope Mountain1,110 ft
- Summer Hill1,010 ft
- Swatara Hill910 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. All public domain.