Lower Merion Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
500 ft 150 m370 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m190 ft 60 m71 ft 22 m10 ft 3 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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 Merion Township sits at about 310 ft (95 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
310 ft 95 m
most residents: 220–400 ft
Lowest
11 ft 3 m
on the east side
Highest
500 ft 150 m
on the northwest side
Average
300 ft 95 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lower Merion Township spans about 489 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 | 310 ft95 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 500 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 11 ft3 m |
| Airport (PHL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 300 ft95 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the middle of Lower Merion Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 64,702 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,740 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0126° N, 75.2769° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 10
- 19003 19004 19010 19035 19041 19066 19072 19085 19096 19428
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bryn Mawr400 ft
- Rosemont390 ft
- Haverford College350 ft
- Ardmore330 ft
- Lower Merion Township310 ft
- Narberth300 ft
- Haverford Township290 ft
- Wynnewood290 ft
- Merion Station290 ft
- Bala Cynwyd280 ft
- Penn Wynne220 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,346th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County36th highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sandy Hill340 ft
- Fort Hill, Montgomery County290 ft
- Lafayette Hill280 ft
- Georges Hill270 ft
- Lemon Hill140 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. All public domain.