Rapho Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m430 ft 130 m310 ft 95 m260 ft 80 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
Rapho 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: 370–560 ft
Lowest
260 ft 80 m
on the southwest side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
at the foot of the Furnace Hills
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rapho Township spans about 440 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, at the foot of the Furnace Hills | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 260 ft80 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi east of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Rapho Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 12,256 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.4 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 258 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1468° N, 76.4630° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17022 17512 17545 17552
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Penryn550 ft
- Mount Joy Township500 ft
- Penn Township, Lancaster County490 ft
- Rapho Township450 ft
- West Hempfield Township440 ft
- Salunga410 ft
- Manheim410 ft
- Rheems400 ft
- Landisville380 ft
- Mount Joy380 ft
- East Petersburg360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,997th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County43rd highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Governor Dick Hill1,151 ft
- Spring Hill1,090 ft
- Hulls Hill790 ft
- Conewago Hill770 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.