West Cocalico Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m960 ft 290 m850 ft 260 m620 ft 190 m400 ft 125 m290 ft 90 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
West Cocalico Township sits at about 520 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 155 m
most residents: 440–680 ft
Lowest
290 ft 90 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the north side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Cocalico Township spans about 890 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 | 520 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 290 ft90 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the middle of West Cocalico Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,600 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 278 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2622° N, 76.1539° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17517 17522 17569 17578
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Schoeneck590 ft
- Adamstown530 ft
- West Cocalico Township520 ft
- Swartzville510 ft
- Reinholds500 ft
- East Cocalico Township490 ft
- Reamstown450 ft
- South Heidelberg Township440 ft
- Denver410 ft
- Stevens390 ft
- Ephrata Township390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,806th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County24th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Eagle Peak1,300 ft
- Cushion Peak1,110 ft
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Ephrata Mountain810 ft
- Kline Hill730 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.