Providence Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m770 ft 235 m680 ft 210 m520 ft 160 m350 ft 105 m270 ft 80 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Providence Township sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 390–810 ft
Lowest
270 ft 80 m
on the northwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside township boundaries
Providence Township spans about 670 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 270 ft80 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi north of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.2 mi south to north through the middle of Providence Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,305 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 368 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9127° N, 76.2277° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17532 17560 17566 17584
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Eden Township720 ft
- Martic Township630 ft
- East Drumore Township630 ft
- Quarryville530 ft
- Providence Township520 ft
- Strasburg460 ft
- Strasburg Township440 ft
- Pequea Township430 ft
- Willow Street430 ft
- Lampeter400 ft
- Refton400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,796th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County23rd highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Stony Hill, Lancaster County770 ft
- Red Hill, Lancaster County640 ft
- Oak Hill, Lancaster County630 ft
- Bunker Hill, Lancaster County560 ft
- Cherry Hill, Lancaster County370 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.