West York, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m380 ft 115 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
West York sits at about 410 ft (125 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
410 ft 125 m
most residents: 390–430 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
near the middle
Highest
480 ft 150 m
at the foot of the Conewago Mountains
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside borough limits
West York spans about 100 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 | 410 ft125 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Conewago Mountains | 480 ft150 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, near the middle | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West York | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (THV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi west of the borough limits | 495 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,127 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 9,766 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9526° N, 76.7514° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- York (THV) 495 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17404
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Queens Gate650 ft
- Tyler Run600 ft
- Valley View590 ft
- Spring Garden Township490 ft
- Shiloh470 ft
- Manchester Township460 ft
- West Manchester Township460 ft
- Grantley430 ft
- West York410 ft
- York410 ft
- North York400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,108th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County82nd highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chimney Rock870 ft
- Pickett Hill570 ft
- Schulls Rock510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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, 380 ft at 39.9532° N, 76.7518° 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.