Paradise, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m420 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m350 ft 105 m330 ft 100 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
Paradise 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: 350–420 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the west side
Highest
460 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paradise spans about 130 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 the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 460 ft140 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paradise | 370 ft110 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,305 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,121 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0098° N, 76.1286° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17562
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Paradise Township460 ft
- Strasburg460 ft
- Strasburg Township440 ft
- Intercourse420 ft
- Leacock Township410 ft
- Gordonville390 ft
- Paradise390 ft
- Ronks380 ft
- Soudersburg370 ft
- Smoketown360 ft
- Bird-in-Hand350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,169th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County80th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gap Hill, Lancaster County830 ft
- Stony Hill, Lancaster County770 ft
- Oak Hill, Lancaster County630 ft
- Bunker Hill, Lancaster County560 ft
- Dry Hill, Lancaster County560 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.
- Paradise 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. All public domain.