Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 200 m520 ft 160 m390 ft 120 m330 ft 100 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
Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 510–700 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the south side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
on the northeast side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County spans about 510 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (MQS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi east of the township boundaries | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.2 mi west to east through the middle of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,515 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 180 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9472° N, 76.0167° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- East Branch Octoraro Creek → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Chester County G O Carlson (MQS) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 17509 17527 17535 17562 19310
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bart Township670 ft
- Georgetown, Lancaster County670 ft
- West Sadsbury Township670 ft
- Salisbury Township, Lancaster County650 ft
- Gap610 ft
- Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County590 ft
- West Fallowfield Township590 ft
- Highland Township570 ft
- Parkesburg550 ft
- Christiana490 ft
- Atglen490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,621st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County10th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gap Hill, Lancaster County830 ft
- Stony Hill, Lancaster County770 ft
- Oak Hill, Lancaster County630 ft
- Bunker Hill, Lancaster County560 ft
- Dry Hill, Lancaster County560 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.