Gettysburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 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
Gettysburg sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 510–560 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the east side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside borough limits
Gettysburg spans about 150 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gettysburg | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (W05) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi west of the borough limits | 553 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,647 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi
- Density
- 5,206 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8309° N, 77.2311° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Monocacy River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gettysburg Regional (W05) 553 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17325
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- McKnightstown640 ft
- Butler Township, Adams County620 ft
- Highland Township, Adams County610 ft
- Bonneauville600 ft
- Table Rock580 ft
- Hunterstown570 ft
- Straban Township550 ft
- Cumberland Township530 ft
- Gettysburg520 ft
- Mount Joy Township, Adams County520 ft
- Lake Heritage520 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,792nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County41st 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
- Cemetery Hill, Adams County630 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.