Lancaster Township, Butler County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,280 ft 390 m1,220 ft 370 m1,100 ft 335 m980 ft 300 m920 ft 280 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lancaster Township, Butler County sits at about 1,190 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,190 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,030–1,320 ft
Lowest
920 ft 280 m
on the south side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lancaster Township, Butler County spans about 470 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 | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 920 ft280 m |
| Airport (PJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 907 ft276 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the middle of Lancaster Township, Butler County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,587 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.0 sq mi
- Density
- 156 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8510° N, 80.1214° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Zelienople Municipal (PJC) 907 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 16033 16037
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Prospect1,330 ft
- Portersville1,320 ft
- Muddy Creek Township1,270 ft
- Connoquenessing1,270 ft
- Connoquenessing Township1,250 ft
- Lancaster Township, Butler County1,190 ft
- Perry Township, Lawrence County1,140 ft
- Jackson Township, Butler County1,110 ft
- Franklin Township, Beaver County1,000 ft
- Harmony970 ft
- Zelienople960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,103rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Butler County54th highest of 71
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Knob, Beaver County1,380 ft
- Fletcher Hill1,330 ft
- Steffens Hill1,290 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 ft
- Bunker Hill, Beaver County1,240 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, 920 ft at 40.8196° N, 80.1057° 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.