West Earl Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m480 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m380 ft 115 m310 ft 95 m280 ft 85 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 Earl Township sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
370 ft 115 m
most residents: 320–450 ft
Lowest
280 ft 85 m
on the west side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the east side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Earl Township spans about 260 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 | 370 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 280 ft85 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi west of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.2 mi west to east through the middle of West Earl Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,420 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 474 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1255° N, 76.1845° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17508 17522 17540 17557
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Earl Township460 ft
- Akron460 ft
- Rothsville440 ft
- Leola420 ft
- Ephrata410 ft
- Upper Leacock Township410 ft
- Farmersville400 ft
- Ephrata Township390 ft
- West Earl Township370 ft
- Hinkletown370 ft
- Brownstown340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,219th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County90th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cannon Hill1,010 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lancaster County840 ft
- Ephrata Mountain810 ft
- Kline Hill730 ft
- Dry Hill, Lancaster County560 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.