Ephrata Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 m480 ft 145 m350 ft 105 m280 ft 85 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ephrata Township sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 350–470 ft
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the southeast side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on Ephrata Mountain
Average
400 ft 125 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ephrata Township spans about 530 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Ephrata Mountain | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.9 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the middle of Ephrata Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 10,693 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 659 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1893° N, 76.1800° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17522 17543
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Schoeneck590 ft
- Akron460 ft
- Reamstown450 ft
- Denver410 ft
- Ephrata410 ft
- Clay Township400 ft
- Farmersville400 ft
- Stevens390 ft
- Ephrata Township390 ft
- West Earl Township370 ft
- Hinkletown370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,166th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County79th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lancaster County840 ft
- Ephrata Mountain810 ft
- Kline Hill730 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. All public domain.