Oxford Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m600 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Oxford Township sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
550 ft 170 m
most residents: 500–590 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the northwest side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
at the foot of the Pigeon Hills
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside township boundaries
Oxford Township spans about 190 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 | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, at the foot of the Pigeon Hills | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 450 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the middle of Oxford Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 6,082 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 638 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8584° N, 77.0474° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Conewago Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 17331 17350
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berwick Township770 ft
- Hanover610 ft
- Midway590 ft
- Mount Pleasant Township, Adams County560 ft
- McSherrystown560 ft
- Conewago Township, Adams County550 ft
- Oxford Township550 ft
- New Oxford550 ft
- Abbottstown550 ft
- Hamilton Township, Adams County520 ft
- Hampton490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,712th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Adams County32nd highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- High Rock1,220 ft
- Pigeon Hill, Adams County1,020 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 39.8296° N, 77.0379° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.