West Fairview, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
470 ft 145 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m370 ft 110 m320 ft 100 m300 ft 90 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Fairview sits at about 350 ft (105 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
350 ft 105 m
most residents: 330–410 ft
Lowest
300 ft 90 m
on the north side
Highest
470 ft 145 m
on the northwest side
Average
370 ft 110 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
West Fairview spans about 170 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 | 350 ft105 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 470 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 300 ft90 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Fairview | 330 ft100 m |
| Airport (MDT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.6 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 310 ft94 m |
| Average of all land | 370 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,138 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 3,534 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2751° N, 76.9155° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Harrisburg International (MDT) 310 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17025
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Penbrook480 ft
- Enola430 ft
- East Pennsboro Township430 ft
- Camp Hill420 ft
- Wormleysburg410 ft
- Lower Allen Township400 ft
- Lemoyne400 ft
- Lower Allen390 ft
- Harrisburg370 ft
- New Cumberland370 ft
- West Fairview350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,270th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cumberland Countylowest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Cove Mountain, Perry County1,330 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- West Fairview is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.