Peters Township, Franklin County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,360 ft 720 m1,890 ft 575 m1,650 ft 505 m1,170 ft 360 m700 ft 210 m460 ft 140 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
Peters Township, Franklin County sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 550–960 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,360 ft 720 m
on the northwest side
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside township boundaries
Peters Township, Franklin County spans about 1,900 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,360 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.7 mi south to north through the middle of Peters Township, Franklin County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,470 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.8 sq mi
- Density
- 80 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8680° N, 77.8852° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17224 17225 17236 17252
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Todd Township1,050 ft
- Ayr Township1,000 ft
- McConnellsburg910 ft
- Metal Township850 ft
- Warren Township, Franklin County780 ft
- Fort Loudon650 ft
- Peters Township, Franklin County620 ft
- St. Thomas Township610 ft
- Greencastle600 ft
- Mercersburg580 ft
- Montgomery Township, Franklin County580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,555th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Franklin County25th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.