West Donegal Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m580 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m450 ft 135 m360 ft 110 m310 ft 95 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
West Donegal Township sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 400–550 ft
Lowest
320 ft 95 m
on the northwest side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the west side
Average
450 ft 135 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Donegal Township 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 320 ft95 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the middle of West Donegal Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,152 2024 est.
- Land area
- 15.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 580 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1323° N, 76.6208° 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
- 17022 17570
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Joy Township500 ft
- Elizabethtown470 ft
- West Donegal Township470 ft
- Londonderry Township430 ft
- Falmouth420 ft
- Rheems400 ft
- Maytown390 ft
- Conoy Township370 ft
- East Donegal Township370 ft
- York Haven360 ft
- Bainbridge310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,945th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County37th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Round Top, Dauphin County920 ft
- Buzzards Roost, York County840 ft
- Round Top, York County780 ft
- Schulls Rock510 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 200 ft at 40.1279° N, 76.5782° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.