Lower Paxton Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,040 ft 315 m920 ft 280 m680 ft 210 m450 ft 135 m330 ft 100 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 Paxton Township sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 450–520 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
on the north side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lower Paxton Township spans about 950 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the middle of Lower Paxton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 55,465 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,970 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3129° N, 76.7973° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17109 17110 17111 17112
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paxtonia510 ft
- Linglestown510 ft
- West Hanover Township500 ft
- Colonial Park490 ft
- Lower Paxton Township490 ft
- Rutherford480 ft
- Penbrook480 ft
- Lawnton480 ft
- Progress470 ft
- Susquehanna Township450 ft
- Paxtang390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,895th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County28th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Sharp Mountain1,650 ft
- Third Mountain1,650 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.