McKinley, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
310 ft 95 m270 ft 80 m250 ft 75 m210 ft 65 m170 ft 50 m150 ft 45 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
McKinley sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 210–280 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the southeast side
Highest
310 ft 95 m
on the northwest side
Average
240 ft 70 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
McKinley spans about 160 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 310 ft95 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 150 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McKinley | 270 ft80 m |
| Airport (PNE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.7 mi east of the CDP boundary | 120 ft37 m |
| Average of all land | 240 ft70 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,128 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3,542 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0848° N, 75.1168° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Northeast Philadelphia (PNE) 120 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19027
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jenkintown280 ft
- Abington Township280 ft
- Glenside270 ft
- Wyncote270 ft
- Cheltenham Township240 ft
- McKinley230 ft
- Rockledge230 ft
- Elkins Park210 ft
- Melrose Park200 ft
- Oak Lane190 ft
- Cheltenham Village140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,422nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County72nd highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Camp Hill340 ft
- Sandy Hill340 ft
- Fort Hill, Montgomery County290 ft
- Lafayette Hill280 ft
- Lemon Hill140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- McKinley is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.