Washington Township, Dauphin County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,110 ft 340 m1,000 ft 305 m780 ft 240 m560 ft 170 m450 ft 140 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
Washington Township, Dauphin County sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 550–750 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Washington Township, Dauphin County spans about 880 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 450 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.0 mi south to north through the middle of Washington Township, Dauphin County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,132 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.7 sq mi
- Density
- 120 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5584° N, 76.8043° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 17023 17048 17061
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gratz800 ft
- Jefferson Township, Dauphin County770 ft
- Wiconisco Township740 ft
- Berrysburg720 ft
- Lykens Township710 ft
- Lykens680 ft
- Mifflin Township, Dauphin County680 ft
- Jackson Township, Dauphin County650 ft
- Elizabethville650 ft
- Washington Township, Dauphin County630 ft
- Pillow540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,530th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County15th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Broad Mountain, Dauphin County1,760 ft
- Short Mountain, Dauphin County1,660 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.