Jacobus, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m670 ft 205 m630 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Jacobus sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 560–680 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside borough limits
Jacobus spans about 280 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jacobus | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (THV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.0 mi west of the borough limits | 495 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,839 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,975 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8832° N, 76.7105° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Codorus Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- York (THV) 495 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17407
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dallastown850 ft
- Loganville790 ft
- Yoe760 ft
- Springfield Township, York County700 ft
- Spry690 ft
- York Township670 ft
- Queens Gate650 ft
- Jacobus620 ft
- Tyler Run600 ft
- Seven Valleys490 ft
- Grantley430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,546th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County35th highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Huntrick Hill1,030 ft
- Saubel Hill960 ft
- Chimney Rock870 ft
- Mount Pisgah, York County870 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.