York, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m530 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m370 ft 115 m340 ft 105 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
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: 380–430 ft
Lowest
340 ft 105 m
on the north side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside city limits
York spans about 250 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 city limits, on the southeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 340 ft105 m |
| Town center USGS map point for York | 390 ft120 m |
| Airport (THV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi west of the city limits | 495 ft151 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in York County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 45,241 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 8,549 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9626° N, 76.7277° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- York (THV) 495 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 17401 17403 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
- Pleasureville560 ft
- Spring Garden Township490 ft
- East York460 ft
- Grantley430 ft
- Emigsville410 ft
- West York410 ft
- York410 ft
- North York400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,126th highest of 3,545
- Towns in York County84th highest of 91
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quirauk Mountain2,140 ft
- Chimney Rock870 ft
- Mount Pisgah, York County870 ft
- Buzzards Roost, York County840 ft
- Schulls Rock510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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, 340 ft at 39.9688° N, 76.7557° 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.