Scotland, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m730 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m660 ft 200 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
Scotland sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 670–730 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the northwest side
Highest
780 ft 240 m
at the foot of the South Mountain
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Scotland spans about 120 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the South Mountain | 780 ft240 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scotland | 700 ft215 m |
| Airport (N68) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi west of the CDP boundary | 688 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,353 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,642 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9687° N, 77.5872° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Conococheague Creek → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Franklin County Regional (N68) 688 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17202 17254
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fayetteville810 ft
- Guilford Township770 ft
- Guilford750 ft
- Greene Township730 ft
- Scotland710 ft
- Southampton Township690 ft
- Hamilton Township690 ft
- Shippensburg680 ft
- Orrstown680 ft
- Shippensburg University660 ft
- Chambersburg630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,324th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Franklin County15th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 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.
- Scotland 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.