Brecknock Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m820 ft 250 m740 ft 225 m580 ft 180 m420 ft 130 m340 ft 105 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brecknock Township sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
460 ft 140 m
most residents: 410–590 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the west side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the east side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brecknock Township spans about 650 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 | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi west of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.3 mi west to east through the middle of Brecknock Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,747 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 314 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1960° N, 76.0302° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 17507 17517 17519 17555 17569 17578 19540
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Brecknock Township, Berks County650 ft
- Alleghenyville560 ft
- Terre Hill530 ft
- Adamstown530 ft
- Goodville520 ft
- Swartzville510 ft
- East Cocalico Township490 ft
- Brecknock Township460 ft
- Bowmansville450 ft
- Reamstown450 ft
- Fivepointville420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,968th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County40th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Welsh Mountain1,130 ft
- Cushion Peak1,110 ft
- Silver Hill930 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lancaster County840 ft
- Ephrata Mountain810 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.