Germany Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 235 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 195 m570 ft 175 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 140 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
Germany Township sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 540–690 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
760 ft 235 m
on the east side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside township boundaries
Germany Township spans about 310 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 760 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 450 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the middle of Germany Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,919 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.8 sq mi
- Density
- 270 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7335° N, 77.1052° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Monocacy River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Adams County660 ft
- Littlestown620 ft
- Bonneauville600 ft
- Pennville580 ft
- Germany Township580 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County560 ft
- McSherrystown560 ft
- Conewago Township, Adams County550 ft
- Taneytown, MD530 ft
- Mount Joy Township, Adams County520 ft
- Lake Heritage520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,656th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County26th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Harpers Hill710 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.