Greencastle, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m580 ft 175 m550 ft 165 m530 ft 160 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
Greencastle sits at about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 570–620 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the west side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the southeast side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside borough limits
Greencastle spans about 130 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 | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Greencastle | 580 ft180 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi south of the borough limits | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,226 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,661 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7904° N, 77.7278° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17225
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Middleburg, MD710 ft
- State Line700 ft
- Fountainhead-Orchard Hills, MD640 ft
- Maugansville, MD620 ft
- Marion610 ft
- Antrim Township600 ft
- Greencastle600 ft
- Reid, MD590 ft
- Paramount-Long Meadow, MD580 ft
- Fairview, MD540 ft
- Cearfoss, MD500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,609th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Franklin County29th highest of 31
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 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.