Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,310 ft 400 m1,170 ft 360 m890 ft 270 m610 ft 185 m470 ft 145 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 610–770 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on Bake Oven Knob
Average
730 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County spans about 1,120 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Bake Oven Knob | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi east of the township boundaries | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.7 mi south to north through the middle of Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,402 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 138 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7001° N, 75.6892° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 18053 18066 18078 18080
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Penn Township780 ft
- Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County690 ft
- Washington Township, Lehigh County680 ft
- Schnecksville660 ft
- Lynn Township640 ft
- New Tripoli640 ft
- Lowhill Township600 ft
- North Whitehall Township590 ft
- Slatedale520 ft
- Slatington480 ft
- Walnutport410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,376th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lehigh County4th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bake Oven Knob1,590 ft
- Bull Head820 ft
- Flint Hill, Lehigh County770 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.