Cumberland County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,270 ft 695 m1,780 ft 540 m1,530 ft 465 m1,030 ft 315 m530 ft 165 m290 ft 85 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cumberland County averages about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 290 ft on the east side to 2,270 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the county
Highest
2,270 ft 695 m
on the west side
Lowest
290 ft 85 m
on the east side
Cumberland County spans about 1,980 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 2,270 ft695 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the east side | 290 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
30 mi west to east through Hampden Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 275,516 2024 est.
- Land area
- 545.5 sq mi + 4.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 505 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Valley and Ridge 62%, Blue Ridge 31%
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Franklin County890 ft
- Perry County860 ft
- Adams County740 ft
- Cumberland County700 ft
- Dauphin County690 ft
- York County610 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Pennsylvania55th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States2,020th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Lewis Rocks1,880 ft
- Long Mountain, Cumberland County1,680 ft
- Sliding Rock Mountain1,670 ft
- Tobacco Patch Mountain1,610 ft
- Chimney Rocks, Cumberland County1,600 ft
All 43 towns in Cumberland County by typical elevation
- Cooke Township1,170 ft
- Southampton Township, Cumberland County750 ft
- South Newton Township750 ft
- Penn Township, Cumberland County690 ft
- Shippensburg680 ft
- Shippensburg Township660 ft
- Shippensburg University660 ft
- Upper Mifflin Township650 ft
- Hopewell Township, Cumberland County640 ft
- Dickinson Township620 ft
- Lower Mifflin Township610 ft
- Upper Frankford Township600 ft
- Newburg600 ft
- North Newton Township590 ft
- Mount Holly Springs560 ft
- Lower Frankford Township550 ft
- Boiling Springs530 ft
- South Middleton Township530 ft
- Newville530 ft
- West Pennsboro Township530 ft
- Plainfield510 ft
- Upper Allen Township500 ft
- Monroe Township490 ft
- Carlisle470 ft
- North Middleton Township470 ft
- Schlusser470 ft
- Messiah College460 ft
- Middlesex Township460 ft
- Carlisle Barracks450 ft
- New Kingstown450 ft
- Mechanicsburg440 ft
- Enola430 ft
- East Pennsboro Township430 ft
- Silver Spring Township430 ft
- Camp Hill420 ft
- Hampden Township420 ft
- Shiremanstown420 ft
- Wormleysburg410 ft
- Lower Allen Township400 ft
- Lemoyne400 ft
- Lower Allen390 ft
- New Cumberland370 ft
- West Fairview350 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 99 ft at 40.2543° N, 77.0135° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.