Jackson Township, Dauphin County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,760 ft 540 m1,440 ft 440 m1,270 ft 390 m940 ft 290 m620 ft 190 m450 ft 140 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, Dauphin County sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 580–880 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,760 ft 540 m
on Broad Mountain
Average
1,010 ft 310 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jackson Township, Dauphin County spans about 1,310 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Broad Mountain | 1,760 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 450 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Jackson Township, Dauphin County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,851 2024 est.
- Land area
- 40.1 sq mi
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5029° N, 76.8439° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17032
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wayne Township, Dauphin County790 ft
- Jefferson Township, Dauphin County770 ft
- Mifflin Township, Dauphin County680 ft
- Jackson Township, Dauphin County650 ft
- Elizabethville650 ft
- Washington Township, Dauphin County630 ft
- Halifax Township550 ft
- Upper Paxton Township540 ft
- Millersburg440 ft
- Lenkerville430 ft
- Halifax420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,469th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County13th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Big Lick Mountain1,790 ft
- Broad Mountain, Dauphin County1,760 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.