Palmdale, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Palmdale sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 410–450 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the west side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the northeast side
Average
420 ft 130 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Palmdale spans about 100 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palmdale | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 420 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,308 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 881 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2979° N, 76.6186° 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
- 17033
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Conewago Township, Dauphin County560 ft
- South Londonderry Township490 ft
- Campbelltown480 ft
- South Annville Township460 ft
- South Hanover Township460 ft
- Palmyra460 ft
- North Londonderry Township460 ft
- Palmdale440 ft
- Hershey430 ft
- Derry Township420 ft
- Union Deposit390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,038th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County40th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Governor Dick Hill1,151 ft
- Round Top, Dauphin County920 ft
- Conewago Hill770 ft
- Mount Ararat, Lebanon County650 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.
- Palmdale 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.