Pillow, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 210 m630 ft 190 m600 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 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
Pillow sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 530–590 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
680 ft 210 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside borough limits
Pillow spans about 230 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 680 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 450 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pillow | 550 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 291 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 590 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6409° N, 76.8025° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17080
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gratz800 ft
- Jordan Township, Northumberland County740 ft
- Berrysburg720 ft
- Lykens Township710 ft
- Jackson Township, Northumberland County700 ft
- Mifflin Township, Dauphin County680 ft
- Port Trevorton610 ft
- Lower Mahanoy Township590 ft
- Pillow540 ft
- Dalmatia450 ft
- Herndon450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,735th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County19th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Short Mountain, Dauphin County1,660 ft
- Hooflander Mountain1,160 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.