Schaefferstown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 245 m730 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m620 ft 190 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 150 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Schaefferstown 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: 560–720 ft
Lowest
500 ft 150 m
on the southwest side
Highest
810 ft 245 m
on the northeast side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Schaefferstown spans about 310 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 the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 500 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Schaefferstown | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi south of the CDP boundary | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 978 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 363 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2984° N, 76.2944° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17073 17088
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Heidelberg Township600 ft
- Schaefferstown590 ft
- Brickerville530 ft
- Jackson Township530 ft
- Richland510 ft
- Millcreek Township, Lebanon County500 ft
- West Myerstown500 ft
- Newmanstown490 ft
- Myerstown480 ft
- Hopeland430 ft
- Clay Township400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,619th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lebanon County8th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Eagle Peak1,300 ft
- White Oak Hill1,060 ft
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Forge Hill, Lancaster County860 ft
- Kline Hill730 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.
- Schaefferstown 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.