Swartzville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Swartzville sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 450–550 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the southeast side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
at the foot of the South Mountain
Average
500 ft 150 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Swartzville spans about 150 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the South Mountain | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Swartzville | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft150 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,273 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,555 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2331° N, 76.0783° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17517
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gouglersville750 ft
- Adamstown530 ft
- Swartzville510 ft
- Reinholds500 ft
- East Cocalico Township490 ft
- Brecknock Township460 ft
- Bowmansville450 ft
- Reamstown450 ft
- Fivepointville420 ft
- Denver410 ft
- Stevens390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,817th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County25th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cushion Peak1,110 ft
- Silver Hill930 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lancaster County840 ft
- Ephrata Mountain810 ft
- Kline Hill730 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.
- Swartzville 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.