Emmaus, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
800 ft 245 m680 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m500 ft 155 m390 ft 115 m330 ft 100 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
Emmaus sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 380–460 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the west side
Highest
800 ft 245 m
on the southeast side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside borough limits
Emmaus spans about 470 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 800 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Emmaus | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi north of the borough limits | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 12,314 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.9 sq mi
- Density
- 4,254 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5395° N, 75.4969° 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
- 18049
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lower Milford Township700 ft
- Upper Milford Township690 ft
- Upper Saucon Township490 ft
- Salisbury Township440 ft
- Wescosville430 ft
- Emmaus430 ft
- Lower Macungie Township410 ft
- Macungie410 ft
- Cetronia410 ft
- Dorneyville380 ft
- Allentown360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,065th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lehigh County22nd highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Chestnut Hill, Lehigh County890 ft
- Applebutter Hill850 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Lehigh County840 ft
- South Mountain, Lehigh County830 ft
- Limeport Hill830 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.