Plumstead Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m500 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m290 ft 85 m140 ft 45 m72 ft 22 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
Plumstead Township sits at about 450 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 135 m
most residents: 330–580 ft
Lowest
72 ft 22 m
on the northeast side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plumstead Township spans about 568 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 | 450 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 72 ft22 m |
| Airport (DYL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi south of the township boundaries | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.7 mi west to east through the middle of Plumstead Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 14,363 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 529 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3657° N, 75.1284° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Neshaminy Creek → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Doylestown (DYL) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 18902 18923 18938 18947
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Plumsteadville550 ft
- Dublin550 ft
- Bedminster Township470 ft
- Plumstead Township450 ft
- Blooming Glen420 ft
- Doylestown370 ft
- Tinicum Township, Bucks County360 ft
- Buckingham Township350 ft
- Doylestown Township300 ft
- New Britain290 ft
- Solebury Township250 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,004th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Bucks County17th highest of 74
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hunsberger Knoll580 ft
- Plumstead Hill570 ft
- Buckingham Mountain530 ft
- Little Buckingham Mountain390 ft
- Pebble Hill360 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.