Shrewsbury Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m920 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m720 ft 220 m590 ft 180 m520 ft 160 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
Shrewsbury Township sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 730–920 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
near the middle
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shrewsbury Township spans about 530 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.3 mi west to east through the middle of Shrewsbury Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,144 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.1 sq mi
- Density
- 246 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7594° N, 76.6839° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Codorus Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 4
- 17327 17349 17361 17363
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Shrewsbury930 ft
- New Freedom880 ft
- Shrewsbury Township870 ft
- Winterstown860 ft
- Stewartstown850 ft
- North Hopewell Township850 ft
- Hopewell Township, York County840 ft
- Railroad820 ft
- Loganville790 ft
- Codorus Township780 ft
- Glen Rock680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,993rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County4th highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- High Rock1,220 ft
- Beecher Hill1,090 ft
- Huntrick Hill1,030 ft
- Saubel Hill960 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.