York County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,420 ft 430 m1,090 ft 330 m930 ft 280 m600 ft 180 m270 ft 80 m110 ft 35 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
York County averages about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 110 ft on the southeast side to 1,420 ft on the west side.
Average elevation
610 ft 185 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,420 ft 430 m
on the west side
Lowest
110 ft 30 m
on the southeast side
York County spans about 1,310 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the west side | 1,420 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 110 ft30 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through York.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 471,240 2024 est.
- Land area
- 904.4 sq mi + 6.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 521 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Adams County740 ft
- Cumberland County700 ft
- Dauphin County690 ft
- Carroll County, MD650 ft
- York County610 ft
- Lancaster County470 ft
- Baltimore County, MD430 ft
- Harford County, MD310 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Pennsylvania57th highest of 66
- Counties in the United States2,191st highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Stone Head1,390 ft
- Round Top, York County1,350 ft
- Nells Hill1,330 ft
- High Rock1,220 ft
- Pinetown Hill1,220 ft
All 91 towns in York County by typical elevation
- Shrewsbury930 ft
- Red Lion910 ft
- New Freedom880 ft
- Shrewsbury Township870 ft
- Winterstown860 ft
- Stewartstown850 ft
- North Hopewell Township850 ft
- Dallastown850 ft
- Cross Roads840 ft
- Hopewell Township, York County840 ft
- Railroad820 ft
- Manheim Township, York County810 ft
- Loganville790 ft
- Codorus Township780 ft
- Windsor Township760 ft
- East Hopewell Township760 ft
- Yoe760 ft
- West Manheim Township750 ft
- Chanceford Township720 ft
- Jefferson710 ft
- Springfield Township, York County700 ft
- Franklintown700 ft
- Spry690 ft
- Glen Rock680 ft
- York Township670 ft
- Windsor670 ft
- Fawn Grove670 ft
- Penn Township, York County660 ft
- Parkville660 ft
- Felton660 ft
- Franklin Township, York County660 ft
- Queens Gate650 ft
- Yorkana630 ft
- Fawn Township630 ft
- Jacobus620 ft
- North Codorus Township610 ft
- Heidelberg Township, York County610 ft
- Hanover610 ft
- Tyler Run600 ft
- Monaghan Township590 ft
- Valley View590 ft
- Dillsburg590 ft
- Pennville580 ft
- Carroll Township570 ft
- New Salem570 ft
- Lower Windsor Township570 ft
- Pleasureville560 ft
- Warrington Township, York County560 ft
- Lower Chanceford Township560 ft
- Fairview Township540 ft
- Paradise Township, York County530 ft
- Jackson Township, York County520 ft
- Mount Royal510 ft
- Wellsville500 ft
- Spring Grove500 ft
- Seven Valleys490 ft
- Spring Garden Township490 ft
- Peach Bottom Township480 ft
- Hellam Township480 ft
- Washington Township, York County480 ft
- Susquehanna Trails470 ft
- Manchester470 ft
- Shiloh470 ft
- Dover Township470 ft
- Newberry Township470 ft
- East York460 ft
- Weigelstown460 ft
- Manchester Township460 ft
- Delta460 ft
- West Manchester Township460 ft
- Dover460 ft
- Springettsbury Township460 ft
- Lewisberry440 ft
- East Manchester Township440 ft
- Valley Green440 ft
- Grantley430 ft
- Stonybrook430 ft
- Yorklyn430 ft
- East Prospect430 ft
- Mount Wolf420 ft
- Emigsville410 ft
- West York410 ft
- Conewago Township410 ft
- York410 ft
- North York400 ft
- Hallam370 ft
- York Haven360 ft
- Goldsboro360 ft
- Saginaw340 ft
- Wrightsville330 ft
- New Market310 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.