New Salem, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m590 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 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
New Salem sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 530–630 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the northwest side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the northeast side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside borough limits
New Salem spans about 250 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Salem | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (THV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi west of the borough limits | 495 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 832 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,759 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9015° N, 76.7894° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Codorus Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- York (THV) 495 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17371 17408
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Springfield Township, York County700 ft
- Jacobus620 ft
- North Codorus Township610 ft
- New Salem570 ft
- Jackson Township, York County520 ft
- Spring Grove500 ft
- Seven Valleys490 ft
- Spring Garden Township490 ft
- West Manchester Township460 ft
- Grantley430 ft
- West York410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,671st highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County45th highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- High Rock1,220 ft
- Huntrick Hill1,030 ft
- Saubel Hill960 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.