Penbrook, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m420 ft 130 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Penbrook sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 460–490 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the northwest side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside borough limits
Penbrook spans about 120 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Penbrook | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi southeast of the borough limits | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,263 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 7,300 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2754° N, 76.8480° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17103
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oberlin560 ft
- Colonial Park490 ft
- Swatara Township480 ft
- Penbrook480 ft
- Lawnton480 ft
- Enhaut470 ft
- Progress470 ft
- Susquehanna Township450 ft
- Paxtang390 ft
- Steelton390 ft
- Harrisburg370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,920th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County32nd highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Cove Mountain, Perry County1,330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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, 420 ft at 40.2818° N, 76.8535° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.