West Hempfield Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m580 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m400 ft 125 m290 ft 85 m230 ft 70 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 Hempfield Township sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 340–570 ft
Lowest
230 ft 70 m
on the southwest side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
near the middle
Average
430 ft 135 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Hempfield Township spans about 460 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 230 ft70 m |
| Airport (LNS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.0 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 403 ft123 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.7 mi west to east through the middle of West Hempfield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 17,207 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.5 sq mi + 2.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 932 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0530° N, 76.4479° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lancaster (LNS) 403 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 17512 17538 17552 17554 17601
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Hempfield Township440 ft
- Mountville430 ft
- Salunga410 ft
- East Hempfield Township390 ft
- Landisville380 ft
- Mount Joy380 ft
- Rohrerstown360 ft
- Manor Township350 ft
- Wrightsville330 ft
- Columbia320 ft
- Washington Boro290 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,023rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lancaster County46th highest of 106
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Mount Pisgah, York County870 ft
- Buzzards Roost, York County840 ft
- Round Top, York County780 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Lancaster County670 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.