Lower Allen, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m300 ft 95 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
Lower Allen sits at about 390 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 115 m
most residents: 370–430 ft
Lowest
300 ft 95 m
on the southeast side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the east side
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lower Allen 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 | 390 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 300 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lower Allen | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi east of the CDP boundary | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,465 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,398 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2265° N, 76.9005° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17011
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Camp Hill420 ft
- Shiremanstown420 ft
- Wormleysburg410 ft
- Lower Allen Township400 ft
- Lemoyne400 ft
- Steelton390 ft
- Lower Allen390 ft
- Harrisburg370 ft
- New Cumberland370 ft
- West Fairview350 ft
- New Market310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,180th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County41st highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Cumberland County630 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.
- Lower Allen 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.