St. Thomas Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,040 ft 625 m1,650 ft 505 m1,450 ft 445 m1,060 ft 325 m670 ft 205 m470 ft 145 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
St. Thomas Township sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 560–770 ft
Lowest
470 ft 145 m
on the south side
Highest
2,040 ft 625 m
on the northwest side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside township boundaries
St. Thomas Township spans about 1,570 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,040 ft625 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 470 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for St. Thomas Township | 650 ft195 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.7 mi south of the township boundaries | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,994 2024 est.
- Land area
- 51.9 sq mi
- Density
- 116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9176° N, 77.7978° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Conococheague Creek → Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17202 17224 17225 17252
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Todd Township1,050 ft
- Metal Township850 ft
- Hamilton Township690 ft
- Fort Loudon650 ft
- Chambersburg630 ft
- Peters Township, Franklin County620 ft
- St. Thomas Township610 ft
- Marion610 ft
- Antrim Township600 ft
- Greencastle600 ft
- Mercersburg580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,563rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Franklin County26th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 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 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.