Lima, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
400 ft 120 m350 ft 105 m320 ft 100 m270 ft 80 m220 ft 65 m190 ft 60 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lima sits at about 340 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
340 ft 105 m
most residents: 280–380 ft
Lowest
190 ft 60 m
on the southwest side
Highest
400 ft 120 m
on the east side
Average
320 ft 100 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lima spans about 210 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 | 340 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 400 ft120 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 190 ft60 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lima | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (PHL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi east of the CDP boundary | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 320 ft100 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,745 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,867 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9173° N, 75.4405° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19063
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Willistown Township460 ft
- Edgmont Township390 ft
- Lima340 ft
- Upper Providence Township, Delaware County290 ft
- Chester Heights290 ft
- Media280 ft
- Middletown Township, Delaware County260 ft
- Aston Township200 ft
- Rose Valley170 ft
- Village Green-Green Ridge160 ft
- Nether Providence Township120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,280th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Delaware County12th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Diamond Rock Hill660 ft
- Mount Misery660 ft
- Mount Joy420 ft
- Hunting Hill410 ft
- Osborne Hill380 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Lima is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.