Penn Township, Cumberland County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,340 ft 405 m1,200 ft 365 m940 ft 285 m670 ft 205 m540 ft 165 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
Penn Township, Cumberland County sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 610–990 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the north side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on Chimney Rocks
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside township boundaries
Penn Township, Cumberland County spans about 1,060 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Chimney Rocks | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the middle of Penn Township, Cumberland County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,935 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 99 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1084° N, 77.3349° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Blue Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 17015 17241 17257
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cooke Township1,170 ft
- Southampton Township, Cumberland County750 ft
- South Newton Township750 ft
- Penn Township, Cumberland County690 ft
- Dickinson Township620 ft
- Upper Frankford Township600 ft
- North Newton Township590 ft
- Mount Holly Springs560 ft
- Newville530 ft
- West Pennsboro Township530 ft
- Plainfield510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,362nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County4th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.