Rheems, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m450 ft 140 m420 ft 125 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rheems sits at about 400 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 125 m
most residents: 390–430 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southeast side
Highest
510 ft 155 m
on the west side
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rheems spans about 150 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 | 400 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 510 ft155 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rheems | 430 ft130 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,253 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi
- Density
- 1,579 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1301° N, 76.5705° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 17022 17552 17570
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Joy Township500 ft
- Elizabethtown470 ft
- West Donegal Township470 ft
- Rapho Township450 ft
- Rheems400 ft
- Maytown390 ft
- Mount Joy380 ft
- Conoy Township370 ft
- East Donegal Township370 ft
- Bainbridge310 ft
- Marietta280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,131st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County66th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chimney Rock870 ft
- Buzzards Roost, York County840 ft
- Round Top, York County780 ft
- Schulls Rock510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 40.1279° N, 76.5782° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Rheems is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.