Washington Township, York County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m480 ft 145 m390 ft 120 m350 ft 105 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
Washington Township, York County sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 145 m
most residents: 420–560 ft
Lowest
350 ft 105 m
on the east side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside township boundaries
Washington Township, York County spans about 340 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 | 480 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 350 ft105 m |
| Airport (THV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 495 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.8 mi west to east through the middle of Washington Township, York County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,638 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.0 sq mi
- Density
- 94 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0056° N, 76.9857° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- York (THV) 495 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17019 17315 17316 17365
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklintown700 ft
- Franklin Township, York County660 ft
- York Springs620 ft
- Warrington Township, York County560 ft
- Lake Meade530 ft
- Reading Township510 ft
- Mount Royal510 ft
- Wellsville500 ft
- Hampton490 ft
- Washington Township, York County480 ft
- East Berlin430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,923rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County60th highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Pickett Hill570 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.