Lower Frankford Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,750 ft 535 m1,420 ft 430 m1,250 ft 380 m920 ft 280 m590 ft 180 m420 ft 130 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 Frankford Township sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 500–790 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,750 ft 535 m
on the northwest side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lower Frankford Township spans about 1,330 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,750 ft535 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 420 ft130 m |
| Airport (N94) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the middle of Lower Frankford Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,842 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.7 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 125 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2376° N, 77.2931° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Conodoguinet Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Carlisle (N94) 510 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17015
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lower Mifflin Township610 ft
- Upper Frankford Township600 ft
- Landisburg590 ft
- Lower Frankford Township550 ft
- Newville530 ft
- West Pennsboro Township530 ft
- Plainfield510 ft
- Carlisle470 ft
- North Middleton Township470 ft
- Schlusser470 ft
- Carlisle Barracks450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,723rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County16th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.