Mount Joy Township, Adams County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
670 ft 205 m600 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m480 ft 150 m410 ft 125 m370 ft 115 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
Mount Joy Township, Adams County sits at about 520 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 155 m
most residents: 440–580 ft
Lowest
370 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
670 ft 205 m
on Wolf Hill
Average
520 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Mount Joy Township, Adams County spans about 300 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 | 520 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Wolf Hill | 670 ft205 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 370 ft115 m |
| Airport (W05) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 553 ft169 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.9 mi west to east through the middle of Mount Joy Township, Adams County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,884 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 149 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7757° N, 77.1800° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Monocacy River → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Gettysburg Regional (W05) 553 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17325 17340
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Adams County660 ft
- Littlestown620 ft
- Bonneauville600 ft
- Germany Township580 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County560 ft
- Straban Township550 ft
- Cumberland Township530 ft
- Gettysburg520 ft
- Mount Joy Township, Adams County520 ft
- Lake Heritage520 ft
- Freedom Township, Adams County500 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,800th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County42nd highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Sheep Heaven600 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. All public domain.