Upper Allen Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 195 m560 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m460 ft 140 m400 ft 120 m360 ft 110 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
Upper Allen Township sits at about 500 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
500 ft 155 m
most residents: 430–570 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the east side
Highest
630 ft 195 m
near the middle
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside township boundaries
Upper Allen Township spans about 270 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 | 500 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 630 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi east of the township boundaries | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the middle of Upper Allen Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 24,474 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,848 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1804° N, 76.9823° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17027 17055
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monaghan Township590 ft
- Carroll Township570 ft
- Upper Allen Township500 ft
- Monroe Township490 ft
- Messiah College460 ft
- Mechanicsburg440 ft
- Silver Spring Township430 ft
- Camp Hill420 ft
- Hampden Township420 ft
- Shiremanstown420 ft
- Lower Allen Township400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,838th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland County22nd highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.