Lower Allen Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m410 ft 125 m340 ft 105 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lower Allen Township sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 380–460 ft
Lowest
300 ft 95 m
on the southeast side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on the southwest side
Average
420 ft 125 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lower Allen Township spans about 280 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 300 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lower Allen Township | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi east of the township boundaries | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 20,873 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,074 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 2
- 17011 17055
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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 Pennsylvania3,136th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County39th 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 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.