Lancaster County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m910 ft 280 m780 ft 235 m510 ft 155 m240 ft 75 m110 ft 35 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lancaster County averages about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 110 ft on the south side to 1,180 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
470 ft 145 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the north side
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the south side
Lancaster County spans about 1,070 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
32 mi south to north through Lancaster.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 563,293 2024 est.
- Land area
- 943.9 sq mi + 39.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 597 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Dauphin County690 ft
- York County610 ft
- Lebanon County610 ft
- Berks County560 ft
- Lancaster County470 ft
- Chester County450 ft
- Harford County, MD310 ft
- Cecil County, MD170 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Pennsylvania62nd highest of 66
- Counties in the United States2,371st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Welsh Mountain1,130 ft
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Silver Hill930 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lancaster County840 ft
All 107 towns in Lancaster County by typical elevation
- Eden Township720 ft
- Cambridge710 ft
- Caernarvon Township670 ft
- Bart Township670 ft
- Georgetown, Lancaster County670 ft
- Salisbury Township, Lancaster County650 ft
- Martic Township630 ft
- East Drumore Township630 ft
- Gap610 ft
- Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County590 ft
- Schoeneck590 ft
- Morgantown partly580 ft
- Penryn550 ft
- Quarryville530 ft
- Brickerville530 ft
- Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County530 ft
- Drumore Township530 ft
- Terre Hill530 ft
- East Earl530 ft
- Adamstown530 ft
- Kirkwood530 ft
- Colerain Township520 ft
- Goodville520 ft
- Providence Township520 ft
- West Cocalico Township520 ft
- Swartzville510 ft
- East Earl Township500 ft
- New Holland500 ft
- Mount Joy Township500 ft
- Churchtown500 ft
- Reinholds500 ft
- Christiana490 ft
- Penn Township, Lancaster County490 ft
- Blue Ball490 ft
- East Cocalico Township490 ft
- Little Britain480 ft
- Elizabethtown470 ft
- West Donegal Township470 ft
- Paradise Township460 ft
- Earl Township460 ft
- Brecknock Township460 ft
- Strasburg460 ft
- Akron460 ft
- Rapho Township450 ft
- Bowmansville450 ft
- Reamstown450 ft
- West Hempfield Township440 ft
- Conestoga440 ft
- Rothsville440 ft
- Strasburg Township440 ft
- Mountville430 ft
- Little Britain Township430 ft
- Hopeland430 ft
- Pequea Township430 ft
- Willow Street430 ft
- Warwick Township430 ft
- Fivepointville420 ft
- Intercourse420 ft
- Falmouth420 ft
- Leola420 ft
- Leacock Township410 ft
- Denver410 ft
- Salunga410 ft
- Ephrata410 ft
- Upper Leacock Township410 ft
- Manheim410 ft
- Rheems400 ft
- Clay Township400 ft
- Lititz400 ft
- Lampeter400 ft
- Farmersville400 ft
- Conestoga Township400 ft
- Refton400 ft
- Wakefield400 ft
- Fulton Township400 ft
- Gordonville390 ft
- East Hempfield Township390 ft
- West Lampeter Township390 ft
- Stevens390 ft
- Ephrata Township390 ft
- Paradise390 ft
- Maytown390 ft
- Landisville380 ft
- Mount Joy380 ft
- Ronks380 ft
- Clay380 ft
- Witmer370 ft
- Conoy Township370 ft
- Soudersburg370 ft
- East Donegal Township370 ft
- West Earl Township370 ft
- Hinkletown370 ft
- Rohrerstown360 ft
- East Petersburg360 ft
- East Lampeter Township360 ft
- Lancaster360 ft
- Manheim Township360 ft
- Smoketown360 ft
- Manor Township350 ft
- Bird-in-Hand350 ft
- Lancaster Township340 ft
- Brownstown340 ft
- Millersville330 ft
- Columbia320 ft
- Bainbridge310 ft
- Washington Boro290 ft
- Marietta280 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.