Dillsburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 210 m640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 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
Dillsburg sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 560–640 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the northwest side
Highest
680 ft 210 m
on the southeast side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside borough limits
Dillsburg spans about 160 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 680 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dillsburg | 570 ft170 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 15 mi east of the borough limits | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,651 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 3,285 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1109° N, 77.0350° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17019
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklintown700 ft
- Franklin Township, York County660 ft
- Monaghan Township590 ft
- Dillsburg590 ft
- Carroll Township570 ft
- Warrington Township, York County560 ft
- Latimore Township550 ft
- Boiling Springs530 ft
- Upper Allen Township500 ft
- Monroe Township490 ft
- Messiah College460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,638th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County42nd highest of 91
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 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.