Waynesboro, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
910 ft 275 m830 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m710 ft 215 m630 ft 195 m590 ft 180 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Waynesboro sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 670–780 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the south side
Highest
910 ft 275 m
on the east side
Average
700 ft 210 m
all land inside borough limits
Waynesboro spans about 320 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 910 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waynesboro | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (HGR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.2 mi west of the borough limits | 703 ft214 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft210 m |
| Nearest peak Quirauk Mountain, 3.7 mi southeast of the borough limits | 2,140 ft655 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 11,101 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 3,235 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7559° N, 77.5778° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Potomac River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hagerstown Regional/Richard A Henson Field (HGR) 703 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17268
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fort Ritchie, MD1,450 ft
- Highfield-Cascade, MD1,420 ft
- Pen Mar830 ft
- Quincy Township820 ft
- Ringgold, MD740 ft
- Rouzerville730 ft
- Washington Township730 ft
- Waynesboro710 ft
- Greensburg, MD690 ft
- Wayne Heights660 ft
- Leitersburg, MD580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,330th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Franklin County16th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- High Point2,590 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Third Hill Mountain2,170 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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.