Mount Joy, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 m310 ft 95 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Mount Joy sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 360–430 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the east side
Highest
490 ft 150 m
on the northwest side
Average
380 ft 115 m
all land inside borough limits
Mount Joy spans about 180 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 490 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Joy | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northwest of the borough limits | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 380 ft115 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,364 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 3,469 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1098° N, 76.5033° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17552
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Joy Township500 ft
- Rapho Township450 ft
- West Hempfield Township440 ft
- Salunga410 ft
- Rheems400 ft
- Maytown390 ft
- Landisville380 ft
- Mount Joy380 ft
- East Donegal Township370 ft
- Columbia320 ft
- Marietta280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,184th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County83rd highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Buzzards Roost, York County840 ft
- Round Top, York County780 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Lancaster County670 ft
- Schulls Rock510 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.