Oberlin, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m550 ft 165 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Oberlin sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 530–570 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the southwest side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
near the middle
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Oberlin spans about 90 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oberlin | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 670 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 5,154 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2415° N, 76.8147° 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
- 17113
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oberlin560 ft
- Bressler480 ft
- Swatara Township480 ft
- Penbrook480 ft
- Lawnton480 ft
- Enhaut470 ft
- Lower Swatara Township390 ft
- Paxtang390 ft
- Steelton390 ft
- New Market310 ft
- Highspire310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,706th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County17th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Round Top, Dauphin County920 ft
- Wickersham Hill850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Oberlin is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.