Railroad, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

970 ft 295 m900 ft 275 m860 ft 265 m790 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Railroad sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

820 ft 250 m

most residents: 760–920 ft

Lowest

690 ft 210 m

on the northwest side

Highest

970 ft 295 m

on the northeast side

Average

840 ft 255 m

all land inside borough limits

Railroad spans about 280 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	820 ft250 m
Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side	970 ft295 m
Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side	690 ft210 m
Town center USGS map point for Railroad	750 ft230 m
Average of all land	840 ft255 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.1 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
Population: 257 2024 est.
Land area: 0.6 sq mi
Density: 403 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.7607° N, 76.6983° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Piedmont
Drains to: Codorus Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
ZIP codes 1: 17355

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Pennsylvania2,083rd highest of 3,545
Towns in York County11th highest of 91

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
High Rock1,220 ft
Beecher Hill1,090 ft
Huntrick Hill1,030 ft
Saubel Hill960 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. All public domain.