Media, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
350 ft 110 m300 ft 90 m280 ft 85 m230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Media sits at about 280 ft (85 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
280 ft 85 m
most residents: 230–320 ft
Lowest
150 ft 45 m
on the northwest side
Highest
350 ft 110 m
on the north side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside borough limits
Media spans about 200 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 | 280 ft85 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 350 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 150 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Media | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (PHL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi east of the borough limits | 36 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,938 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 7,782 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9168° N, 75.3877° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Philadelphia International (PHL) 36 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19063
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lima340 ft
- Upper Providence Township, Delaware County290 ft
- Media280 ft
- Middletown Township, Delaware County260 ft
- Rose Valley170 ft
- Morton140 ft
- Swarthmore130 ft
- Rutledge130 ft
- Nether Providence Township120 ft
- Brookhaven110 ft
- Parkside100 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,380th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Delaware County20th highest of 63
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Joy420 ft
- Hunting Hill410 ft
- Osborne Hill380 ft
- Georges Hill270 ft
- Lemon Hill140 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.