Rutherford, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m410 ft 125 m360 ft 110 m330 ft 100 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
Rutherford sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 420–520 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the east side
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the west side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Rutherford spans about 220 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 330 ft100 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rutherford | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi south of the CDP boundary | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,765 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 4,649 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2690° N, 76.7680° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17111
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oberlin560 ft
- Paxtonia510 ft
- Colonial Park490 ft
- Lower Paxton Township490 ft
- Swatara Township480 ft
- Rutherford480 ft
- Lawnton480 ft
- Progress470 ft
- Lower Swatara Township390 ft
- Hummelstown390 ft
- Paxtang390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,918th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County31st highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Round Top, Dauphin County920 ft
- Wickersham Hill850 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).
- 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.
- Rutherford 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.