Harrisburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m530 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m410 ft 125 m330 ft 100 m290 ft 90 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Harrisburg sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 115 m
most residents: 320–450 ft
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the southeast side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the east side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside city limits
Harrisburg spans about 320 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 | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 290 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Harrisburg | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southeast of the city limits | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 50,649 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.1 sq mi + 3.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 6,238 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2737° N, 76.8844° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 17101 17102 17103 17104 17110 17120
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Penbrook480 ft
- Progress470 ft
- Susquehanna Township450 ft
- Enola430 ft
- East Pennsboro Township430 ft
- Wormleysburg410 ft
- Lemoyne400 ft
- Paxtang390 ft
- Harrisburg370 ft
- New Cumberland370 ft
- West Fairview350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,203rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County52nd highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Cove Mountain, Perry County1,330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.