South Manheim Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,600 ft 490 m1,310 ft 400 m1,160 ft 355 m870 ft 265 m570 ft 175 m420 ft 130 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Manheim Township sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 660–860 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the east side
Highest
1,600 ft 490 m
on the south side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Manheim Township spans about 1,180 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,600 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 420 ft130 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the middle of South Manheim Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,797 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.8 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 135 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5922° N, 76.1635° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 17922 17972
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Renningers810 ft
- Lake Wynonah790 ft
- Wayne Township790 ft
- Summit Station780 ft
- South Manheim Township750 ft
- North Manheim Township750 ft
- Friedensburg710 ft
- Cressona570 ft
- Schuylkill Haven550 ft
- Landingville550 ft
- Auburn490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,251st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County81st highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- North Lookout1,520 ft
- Cobble1,460 ft
- Summer Hill1,010 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.