Highland Township, Adams County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m670 ft 205 m540 ft 165 m470 ft 145 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
Highland Township, Adams County sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 540–860 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the east side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on Wilson Hill
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside township boundaries
Highland Township, Adams County spans about 530 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Wilson Hill | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 470 ft145 m |
| Airport (W05) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 553 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the middle of Highland Township, Adams County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,024 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.1 sq mi
- Density
- 84 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8204° N, 77.3286° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Monocacy River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gettysburg Regional (W05) 553 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17325 17353
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hamiltonban Township970 ft
- Franklin Township, Adams County960 ft
- Cashtown700 ft
- Orrtanna660 ft
- McKnightstown640 ft
- Highland Township, Adams County610 ft
- Fairfield600 ft
- Liberty Township, Adams County590 ft
- Cumberland Township530 ft
- Gettysburg520 ft
- Freedom Township, Adams County500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,570th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County20th highest of 47
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 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.