Dickinson Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,320 ft 400 m1,180 ft 360 m900 ft 275 m610 ft 185 m470 ft 145 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dickinson Township sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 560–1,050 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the north side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the south side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dickinson Township spans about 1,130 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (N94) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Dickinson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,470 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 119 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1082° N, 77.2383° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Carlisle (N94) 510 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 17015 17065 17324
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cooke Township1,170 ft
- Idaville910 ft
- Gardners840 ft
- Penn Township, Cumberland County690 ft
- Dickinson Township620 ft
- Mount Holly Springs560 ft
- Boiling Springs530 ft
- South Middleton Township530 ft
- West Pennsboro Township530 ft
- Plainfield510 ft
- Carlisle470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,540th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County10th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.