Mount Penn, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m650 ft 200 m600 ft 185 m500 ft 155 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 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
Mount Penn sits at about 450 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 140 m
most residents: 390–530 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the east side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside borough limits
Mount Penn spans about 390 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 | 450 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Penn | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (RDG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northwest of the borough limits | 343 ft105 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,275 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 8,007 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3281° N, 75.8908° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Reading Regional/Carl A Spaatz Field (RDG) 343 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19606
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Penn450 ft
- Stony Creek Mills410 ft
- Lower Alsace Township390 ft
- Pennside370 ft
- Jacksonwald360 ft
- St. Lawrence340 ft
- Reiffton330 ft
- Kenhorst300 ft
- Reading290 ft
- Exeter Township280 ft
- West Reading280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,989th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Berks County48th highest of 130
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Penn1,119 ft
- Neversink Mountain880 ft
- Guldin Hill870 ft
- Black Bear Hill, Berks County800 ft
- Dengler Hill770 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.