Middle Paxton Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,340 ft 410 m1,170 ft 355 m830 ft 250 m480 ft 145 m310 ft 95 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
Middle Paxton Township sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 400–730 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the south side
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on Stony Mountain
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Middle Paxton Township spans about 1,380 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Stony Mountain | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 310 ft95 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.2 mi south to north through the middle of Middle Paxton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,125 2024 est.
- Land area
- 54.4 sq mi + 4.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 94 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3767° N, 76.9142° 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 3
- 17018 17110 17112
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Halifax Township550 ft
- Reed Township510 ft
- Middle Paxton Township510 ft
- Penn Township, Perry County490 ft
- Susquehanna Township450 ft
- Marysville430 ft
- Enola430 ft
- Dauphin420 ft
- Halifax420 ft
- Duncannon370 ft
- New Buffalo370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,829th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County24th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.