Glenside, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
380 ft 115 m340 ft 105 m320 ft 95 m270 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m210 ft 65 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glenside sits at about 270 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
270 ft 85 m
most residents: 230–320 ft
Lowest
210 ft 65 m
on the southeast side
Highest
380 ft 115 m
on the northwest side
Average
270 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glenside spans about 170 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 | 270 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 210 ft65 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glenside | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (LOM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi west of the CDP boundary | 302 ft92 m |
| Average of all land | 270 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,737 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 6,087 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1023° N, 75.1521° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wings Field (LOM) 302 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19038
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wyndmoor390 ft
- Arcadia University320 ft
- Jenkintown280 ft
- Abington Township280 ft
- Glenside270 ft
- Wyncote270 ft
- Roslyn270 ft
- McKinley230 ft
- Oreland230 ft
- Springfield Township, Montgomery County220 ft
- Elkins Park210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,391st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County53rd highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Camp Hill340 ft
- Sandy Hill340 ft
- Fort Hill, Montgomery County290 ft
- Lafayette Hill280 ft
- Georges Hill270 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 40.0960° N, 75.1388° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Glenside is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.