Bethel Township, Lebanon County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 460 m1,230 ft 375 m1,090 ft 335 m820 ft 250 m540 ft 165 m410 ft 125 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, Lebanon County sits at about 500 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 150 m
most residents: 450–570 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,500 ft 460 m
on the north side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bethel Township, Lebanon County spans about 1,090 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 | 500 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 410 ft125 m |
| Airport (9D4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 523 ft159 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the middle of Bethel Township, Lebanon County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.6 sq mi
- Density
- 157 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4357° N, 76.4092° 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 5
- 17026 17038 17046 17067 17963
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sand Hill630 ft
- Mount Aetna590 ft
- North Lebanon Township580 ft
- Jackson Township530 ft
- Avon510 ft
- Bethel Township, Lebanon County500 ft
- Swatara Township, Lebanon County500 ft
- Frystown490 ft
- Fredericksburg480 ft
- Union Township, Lebanon County480 ft
- Jonestown440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,848th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lebanon County16th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Second Mountain, Lebanon County1,320 ft
- Little Mountain, Lebanon County1,110 ft
- Swope Mountain1,110 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).
- 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, 410 ft at 40.4113° N, 76.4299° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.