Collegeville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m120 ft 35 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
Collegeville sits at about 170 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
170 ft 55 m
most residents: 140–240 ft
Lowest
98 ft 30 m
on the south side
Highest
280 ft 85 m
on the west side
Average
180 ft 55 m
all land inside borough limits
Collegeville spans about 182 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 | 170 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 280 ft85 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 98 ft30 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Collegeville | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (PTW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi northwest of the borough limits | 308 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,308 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 3,377 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1857° N, 75.4516° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Heritage Field (PTW) 308 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19426
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eagleville410 ft
- Trooper330 ft
- Trappe260 ft
- Lower Providence Township240 ft
- Skippack240 ft
- Skippack Township230 ft
- Upper Providence Township220 ft
- Perkiomen Township220 ft
- Evansburg210 ft
- Collegeville170 ft
- Oaks130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,470th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County97th highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Diamond Rock Hill660 ft
- Mount Misery660 ft
- Sheep Hill, Chester County510 ft
- Mount Joy420 ft
- Sandy Hill340 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.