Hellertown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
420 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m320 ft 95 m270 ft 85 m250 ft 75 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
Hellertown sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 290–370 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the north side
Highest
420 ft 130 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
320 ft 100 m
all land inside borough limits
Hellertown 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 420 ft130 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hellertown | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.4 mi northwest of the borough limits | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 6,145 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 4,684 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5795° N, 75.3407° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18055
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springfield Township, Bucks County600 ft
- Coopersburg500 ft
- Upper Saucon Township490 ft
- DeSales University460 ft
- Lower Saucon Township440 ft
- Fountain Hill380 ft
- Bethlehem Township380 ft
- Middletown, Northampton County340 ft
- Bethlehem340 ft
- Hellertown330 ft
- Freemansburg300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,305th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northampton County44th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kirchberg1,010 ft
- Kohlberg970 ft
- Swoveberg850 ft
- Focht Hill810 ft
- Church Hill, Northampton County580 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.