Elevation of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America is 112 m (367 ft) above sea level.

Lancaster's height from sea level is 112 metres, or 367 feet. GeoNames reads 116 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 112 m.

Ground within 5 km

81 m – 129 m

Mean 103 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 48 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 14

among the towns of Pennsylvania, and 538th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

York

36.9 km to the W, at 118 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Lancaster

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lancaster; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 140 m at 13 km west to 109 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 119 m at 13 km north to 137 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Lancaster, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Lancaster

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
York	36.9 km	W	118 m (387 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Lancaster

Eagle Rock, peak at 281 m (922 ft), 22.8 km to the N — 169 m above the town.
Cannon Hill, peak at 262 m (860 ft), 24.1 km to the N — 150 m above the town.
Forge Hill, peak at 259 m (850 ft), 23.8 km to the N — 147 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Lancaster is

Latitude 40.0378755, longitude -76.3055144. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Lancaster's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 116 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.