Pottstown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
370 ft 110 m310 ft 95 m270 ft 85 m210 ft 65 m150 ft 45 m120 ft 35 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Pottstown sits at about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
180 ft 55 m
most residents: 150–250 ft
Lowest
120 ft 35 m
on the southeast side
Highest
370 ft 110 m
on the northeast side
Average
190 ft 60 m
all land inside borough limits
Pottstown spans about 250 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 | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 370 ft110 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 120 ft35 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pottstown | 150 ft45 m |
| Airport (PTW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi east of the borough limits | 308 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 190 ft60 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 23,553 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,854 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2454° N, 75.6496° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Heritage Field (PTW) 308 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 19464
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Halfway House380 ft
- Upper Pottsgrove Township380 ft
- North Coventry Township260 ft
- Pottsgrove250 ft
- Lower Pottsgrove Township250 ft
- Sanatoga250 ft
- South Pottstown220 ft
- Kenilworth210 ft
- West Pottsgrove Township200 ft
- Stowe200 ft
- Pottstown180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,466th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Montgomery County94th highest of 107
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fancy Hill1,090 ft
- Sand Hill, Berks County1,040 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Berks County1,000 ft
- Gabel Hill600 ft
- Sheep Hill, Chester County510 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.