Carlisle, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m440 ft 135 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carlisle sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 460–490 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the northeast side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the north side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside borough limits
Carlisle spans about 80 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carlisle | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (N94) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi southeast of the borough limits | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 22,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.5 sq mi
- Density
- 4,070 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2015° N, 77.1889° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Carlisle (N94) 510 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17013
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Holly Springs560 ft
- Lower Frankford Township550 ft
- Boiling Springs530 ft
- South Middleton Township530 ft
- Plainfield510 ft
- Carlisle470 ft
- North Middleton Township470 ft
- Schlusser470 ft
- Middlesex Township460 ft
- Carlisle Barracks450 ft
- New Kingstown450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,937th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County24th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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).
- 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.