Clay, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Clay sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 370–400 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southeast side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
at the foot of the Furnace Hills
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Clay spans about 200 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Furnace Hills | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clay | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.3 mi south of the CDP boundary | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,869 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 836 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2184° N, 76.2555° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17522
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Schoeneck590 ft
- Brickerville530 ft
- Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County530 ft
- Rothsville440 ft
- Hopeland430 ft
- Warwick Township430 ft
- Ephrata410 ft
- Clay Township400 ft
- Lititz400 ft
- Ephrata Township390 ft
- Clay380 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,195th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County85th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- White Oak Hill1,060 ft
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 ft
- Ephrata Mountain810 ft
- Kline Hill730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Clay is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.