North Wales, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
450 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m340 ft 105 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
North Wales sits at about 390 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
390 ft 120 m
most residents: 360–440 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the southwest side
Highest
450 ft 135 m
on the east side
Average
400 ft 120 m
all land inside borough limits
North Wales spans about 110 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 | 390 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 450 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Wales | 370 ft110 m |
| Airport (LOM) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi south of the borough limits | 302 ft92 m |
| Average of all land | 400 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,450 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 5,877 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2109° N, 75.2782° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wings Field (LOM) 302 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19454
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Montgomeryville440 ft
- Montgomery Township400 ft
- North Wales390 ft
- Lansdale360 ft
- Upper Gwynedd Township340 ft
- Lower Gwynedd Township320 ft
- Worcester Township320 ft
- Spring House320 ft
- Whitpain Township300 ft
- Towamencin Township290 ft
- Kulpsville270 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,154th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County8th highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pebble Hill360 ft
- Camp Hill340 ft
- Sandy Hill340 ft
- Fort Hill, Montgomery County290 ft
- Lafayette Hill280 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.