Palmer Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m450 ft 135 m400 ft 125 m310 ft 95 m230 ft 70 m180 ft 55 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Palmer Township sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 115 m
most residents: 330–410 ft
Lowest
180 ft 55 m
on the southeast side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the north side
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside township boundaries
Palmer Township spans about 360 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 | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 180 ft55 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi west of the township boundaries | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.7 mi south to north through the middle of Palmer Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 22,606 2024 est.
- Land area
- 10.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,205 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6895° N, 75.2602° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- New England
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18045
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morgan Hill650 ft
- Old Orchard400 ft
- Chestnut Hill380 ft
- Tatamy380 ft
- Wilson380 ft
- Forks Township380 ft
- Palmer Township370 ft
- Palmer Heights360 ft
- West Easton330 ft
- Easton330 ft
- Glendon310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,210th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northampton County35th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Gaffney Hill1,010 ft
- Hexenkopf Hill940 ft
- Morgan Hill, Northampton County820 ft
- Bixlers Bluff363 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.