Thorndale, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 165 m470 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m360 ft 110 m290 ft 90 m250 ft 75 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Thorndale sits at about 330 ft (100 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
330 ft 100 m
most residents: 280–420 ft
Lowest
250 ft 75 m
on the northeast side
Highest
550 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Average
350 ft 110 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Thorndale spans about 300 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 | 330 ft100 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 550 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 250 ft75 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Thorndale | 340 ft105 m |
| Airport (MQS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi west of the CDP boundary | 660 ft201 m |
| Average of all land | 350 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,669 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,970 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9929° N, 75.7452° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Chester County G O Carlson (MQS) 660 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 19335 19372
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Brandywine Township590 ft
- East Brandywine Township520 ft
- South Coatesville470 ft
- West Bradford Township470 ft
- East Caln Township430 ft
- Coatesville370 ft
- Caln Township360 ft
- Caln350 ft
- Thorndale330 ft
- Modena310 ft
- Downingtown260 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,318th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Chester County83rd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Welsh Mountain1,130 ft
- Thomas Hill, Chester County970 ft
- Gap Hill, Lancaster County830 ft
- Harmony Hill500 ft
- Osborne Hill380 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.
- Thorndale 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.