Jackson Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
730 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m600 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m430 ft 130 m390 ft 120 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
Jackson Township sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 460–630 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the east side
Highest
730 ft 220 m
on the north side
Average
530 ft 160 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jackson Township spans about 340 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 730 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (9D4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 523 ft159 m |
| Average of all land | 530 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.3 mi south to north through the middle of Jackson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,308 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 387 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3794° N, 76.3213° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Deck (9D4) 523 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 17042 17067 17087
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Aetna590 ft
- North Lebanon Township580 ft
- Tulpehocken Township550 ft
- Jackson Township530 ft
- Avon510 ft
- Richland510 ft
- Hebron500 ft
- West Myerstown500 ft
- Frystown490 ft
- Myerstown480 ft
- Stouchsburg430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,773rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lebanon County11th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Eagle Peak1,300 ft
- Little Mountain, Lebanon County1,110 ft
- White Oak Hill1,060 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 390 ft at 40.3804° N, 76.2554° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.