Penn Township, Lancaster County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m910 ft 275 m780 ft 235 m510 ft 155 m240 ft 75 m110 ft 35 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, Lancaster County sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 420–550 ft
Lowest
110 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the north side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Penn Township, Lancaster County spans about 1,070 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 110 ft35 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.3 mi south to north through the middle of Penn Township, Lancaster County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 10,771 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 364 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1705° N, 76.3715° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17543 17545
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Penryn550 ft
- Brickerville530 ft
- Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County530 ft
- Penn Township, Lancaster County490 ft
- Rapho Township450 ft
- Warwick Township430 ft
- Salunga410 ft
- Manheim410 ft
- Lititz400 ft
- Landisville380 ft
- East Petersburg360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,882nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County32nd highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Governor Dick Hill1,151 ft
- Spring Hill1,090 ft
- White Oak Hill1,060 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 ft
- Hulls Hill790 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.