Freedom Township, Adams County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m420 ft 130 m370 ft 115 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Freedom Township, Adams County sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 460–570 ft
Lowest
370 ft 115 m
on the southeast side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
on the northwest side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Freedom Township, Adams County spans about 390 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 370 ft115 m |
| Airport (W05) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi north of the township boundaries | 553 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Freedom Township, Adams County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 845 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 60 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7581° N, 77.2970° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Monocacy River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gettysburg Regional (W05) 553 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17320 17325
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hamiltonban Township970 ft
- Carroll Valley660 ft
- Orrtanna660 ft
- Highland Township, Adams County610 ft
- Fairfield600 ft
- Liberty Township, Adams County590 ft
- Cumberland Township530 ft
- Gettysburg520 ft
- Mount Joy Township, Adams County520 ft
- Freedom Township, Adams County500 ft
- Emmitsburg, MD430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,842nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County45th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.