Hamilton Township, Adams County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 140 m420 ft 125 m390 ft 120 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
Hamilton Township, Adams County 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: 480–560 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the northeast side
Highest
580 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hamilton Township, Adams County spans about 190 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 township boundaries, on the southwest side | 580 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (THV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi east of the township boundaries | 495 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.3 mi south to north through the middle of Hamilton Township, Adams County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,785 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 207 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8980° N, 77.0232° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Conewago Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- York (THV) 495 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 17301 17316 17350
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berwick Township770 ft
- Midway590 ft
- Oxford Township550 ft
- New Oxford550 ft
- Abbottstown550 ft
- Paradise Township, York County530 ft
- Lake Meade530 ft
- Hamilton Township, Adams County520 ft
- Reading Township510 ft
- Hampton490 ft
- East Berlin430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,789th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County40th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Pigeon Hill, Adams County1,020 ft
- Round Hill, Adams County830 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.