Chester Heights, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
390 ft 120 m320 ft 100 m280 ft 85 m210 ft 65 m140 ft 40 m98 ft 30 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
Chester Heights sits at about 290 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
290 ft 85 m
most residents: 260–350 ft
Lowest
98 ft 30 m
on the east side
Highest
390 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside borough limits
Chester Heights spans about 292 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 | 290 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 98 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Chester Heights | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (PHL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi east of the borough limits | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,087 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,394 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8901° N, 75.4755° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 19017 19063 19342
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Thornbury Township380 ft
- Concord Township360 ft
- Lima340 ft
- Bethel Township340 ft
- Cheyney University290 ft
- Chester Heights290 ft
- Middletown Township, Delaware County260 ft
- Aston Township200 ft
- Village Green-Green Ridge160 ft
- Upper Chichester Township110 ft
- Boothwyn110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,374th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Delaware County19th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Diamond Rock Hill660 ft
- Mount Misery660 ft
- Harmony Hill500 ft
- Hunting Hill410 ft
- Osborne Hill380 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. All public domain.