Christiana, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Christiana sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 470–530 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
630 ft 190 m
on the south side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside borough limits
Christiana spans about 180 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 450 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Christiana | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (MQS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi east of the borough limits | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,100 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,087 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9548° N, 75.9969° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- East Branch Octoraro Creek → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Chester County G O Carlson (MQS) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17509
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bart Township670 ft
- Georgetown, Lancaster County670 ft
- West Sadsbury Township670 ft
- Salisbury Township, Lancaster County650 ft
- Gap610 ft
- Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County590 ft
- West Fallowfield Township590 ft
- Highland Township570 ft
- Parkesburg550 ft
- Christiana490 ft
- Atglen490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,866th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County31st highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gap Hill, Lancaster County830 ft
- Stony Hill, Lancaster County770 ft
- Oak Hill, Lancaster County630 ft
- Bunker Hill, Lancaster County560 ft
- Dry Hill, Lancaster County560 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.