Penn Township, York County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m960 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m750 ft 225 m600 ft 185 m530 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, York County sits at about 660 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
660 ft 200 m
most residents: 580–750 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the north side
Average
660 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Penn Township, York County spans about 570 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 | 660 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 530 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.7 mi south to north through the middle of Penn Township, York County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 18,440 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,423 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7908° N, 76.9677° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Codorus Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17331
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Berwick Township770 ft
- West Manheim Township750 ft
- Union Township, Adams County660 ft
- Penn Township, York County660 ft
- Parkville660 ft
- Heidelberg Township, York County610 ft
- Hanover610 ft
- Midway590 ft
- Pennville580 ft
- McSherrystown560 ft
- Conewago Township, Adams County550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,437th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County28th highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- High Rock1,220 ft
- Beecher Hill1,090 ft
- Pigeon Hill, Adams County1,020 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).
- 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, 530 ft at 39.8146° N, 76.9490° 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.