East Petersburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
410 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m370 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m320 ft 100 m310 ft 95 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
East Petersburg sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 340–390 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the southeast side
Highest
410 ft 125 m
on the north side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside borough limits
East Petersburg spans about 100 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 410 ft125 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for East Petersburg | 370 ft115 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.5 mi northeast of the borough limits | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,625 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,829 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1001° N, 76.3541° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17520
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Penn Township, Lancaster County490 ft
- Warwick Township430 ft
- Salunga410 ft
- Manheim410 ft
- Lititz400 ft
- East Hempfield Township390 ft
- Landisville380 ft
- Rohrerstown360 ft
- East Petersburg360 ft
- Lancaster360 ft
- Manheim Township360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,234th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County93rd highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Spring Hill1,090 ft
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 ft
- Hulls Hill790 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Lancaster County670 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.