Lykens, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 430 m1,220 ft 370 m1,120 ft 340 m930 ft 285 m730 ft 225 m630 ft 195 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lykens sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 660–730 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the southwest side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside borough limits
Lykens spans about 790 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 630 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lykens | 690 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,874 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,536 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5668° N, 76.7005° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17048
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rush Township, Dauphin County1,340 ft
- Gratz800 ft
- Jefferson Township, Dauphin County770 ft
- Williams Township, Dauphin County750 ft
- Williamstown750 ft
- Wiconisco Township740 ft
- Wiconsico740 ft
- Lykens Township710 ft
- Lykens680 ft
- Elizabethville650 ft
- Washington Township, Dauphin County630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,383rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County11th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Short Mountain, Dauphin County1,660 ft
- Round Top, Dauphin County1,390 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.