Glenolden, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
100 ft 30 m83 ft 25 m71 ft 22 m49 ft 15 m27 ft 8 m15 ft 5 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Glenolden sits at about 87 ft (26 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
87 ft 26 m
most residents: 61–99 ft
Lowest
15 ft 5 m
on the south side
Highest
100 ft 30 m
on the west side
Average
80 ft 24 m
all land inside borough limits
Glenolden spans about 85 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 | 87 ft26 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 100 ft30 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 15 ft5 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glenolden | 94 ft29 m |
| Airport (PHL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.8 mi southeast of the borough limits | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 80 ft24 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,266 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 7,452 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9001° N, 75.2891° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Coastal Plain
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19036
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morton140 ft
- Aldan120 ft
- Folsom100 ft
- Darby Township95 ft
- Collingdale95 ft
- Glenolden87 ft
- Prospect Park82 ft
- Sharon Hill78 ft
- Norwood74 ft
- Darby62 ft
- Folcroft37 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,519th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Delaware County49th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Joy420 ft
- Hunting Hill410 ft
- Lafayette Hill280 ft
- Georges Hill270 ft
- Lemon Hill140 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.