Elizabethtown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 125 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
Elizabethtown sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 430–510 ft
Lowest
400 ft 125 m
on the south side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the north side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside borough limits
Elizabethtown spans about 210 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 400 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elizabethtown | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi west of the borough limits | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 11,993 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 4,522 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1529° N, 76.6027° 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
- 17022
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Conewago Township, Dauphin County560 ft
- Mount Joy Township500 ft
- Elizabethtown470 ft
- West Donegal Township470 ft
- Londonderry Township430 ft
- Rheems400 ft
- Maytown390 ft
- Mount Joy380 ft
- Conoy Township370 ft
- East Donegal Township370 ft
- Bainbridge310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,935th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County36th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Round Top, Dauphin County920 ft
- Buzzards Roost, York County840 ft
- Round Top, York County780 ft
- Schulls Rock510 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.