Jonestown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m390 ft 120 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
Jonestown sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 400–480 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the southwest side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the north side
Average
440 ft 135 m
all land inside borough limits
Jonestown spans about 120 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 390 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jonestown | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (9D4) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.4 mi southeast of the borough limits | 523 ft159 m |
| Average of all land | 440 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,654 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,609 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4137° N, 76.4783° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Swatara Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Deck (9D4) 523 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17038
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Sand Hill630 ft
- North Lebanon Township580 ft
- Bethel Township, Lebanon County500 ft
- Swatara Township, Lebanon County500 ft
- North Annville Township490 ft
- Fredericksburg480 ft
- Union Township, Lebanon County480 ft
- West Lebanon Township470 ft
- Pleasant Hill470 ft
- Cleona450 ft
- Jonestown440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,031st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lebanon County38th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Second Mountain, Lebanon County1,320 ft
- Little Mountain, Lebanon County1,110 ft
- Swope Mountain1,110 ft
- Mount Ararat, Lebanon County650 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.