Shippensburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 205 m650 ft 195 m630 ft 195 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shippensburg sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 650–710 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the northwest side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside borough limits
Shippensburg 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 630 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shippensburg | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (N68) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi southwest of the borough limits | 688 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Cumberland and Franklin counties, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,638 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,780 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0506° N, 77.5203° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Conodoguinet Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Franklin County Regional (N68) 688 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17257
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Southampton Township, Cumberland County750 ft
- South Newton Township750 ft
- Scotland710 ft
- Southampton Township690 ft
- Shippensburg680 ft
- Orrstown680 ft
- Lurgan Township670 ft
- Shippensburg Township660 ft
- Shippensburg University660 ft
- Hopewell Township, Cumberland County640 ft
- Newburg600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,378th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County5th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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.