Williamstown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 240 m740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 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
Williamstown sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 720–800 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the southwest side
Highest
840 ft 255 m
at the foot of the Bunker Hills
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside borough limits
Williamstown spans about 150 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Bunker Hills | 840 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Williamstown | 730 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,301 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 5,023 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5801° N, 76.6177° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17098
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rush Township, Dauphin County1,340 ft
- Reinerton820 ft
- Porter Township810 ft
- Tower City780 ft
- Orwin780 ft
- Williams Township, Dauphin County750 ft
- Williamstown750 ft
- Wiconisco Township740 ft
- Wiconsico740 ft
- Hubley Township720 ft
- Lykens680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,250th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Dauphin County6th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Big Lick Mountain1,790 ft
- Bear Mountain, Schuylkill County1,630 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).
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.