DeSales University, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m400 ft 120 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
DeSales University sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
460 ft 140 m
few residents
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the west side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
DeSales University 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 460 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.1 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the middle of DeSales University.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 985 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,647 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5414° N, 75.3748° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18034
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lower Milford Township700 ft
- Springfield Township, Bucks County600 ft
- Richlandtown540 ft
- Coopersburg500 ft
- Upper Saucon Township490 ft
- DeSales University460 ft
- Salisbury Township440 ft
- Fountain Hill380 ft
- Bethlehem340 ft
- Hellertown330 ft
- Freemansburg300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,973rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lehigh County17th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Flint Hill, Lehigh County1,010 ft
- The Lookout910 ft
- Applebutter Hill850 ft
- Saucon Hill660 ft
- Church Hill, Northampton County580 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- DeSales University 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.