Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Brief History of York County
The topographical features of York County consist prin cipally of easy-rolling hill and valley surface m a great variety Of aspects. The county belongs to the open country of the great Atlantic plain with an average elevation of about 500 feet above high tide at Philadelphia. A ridge of the South Mountains, about feet high, enters the northwestern cor ner of the county and terminates above Dillsburg. A spur of these'mountains extends across Fairview township and down along the Susquehanna. Enclosed within the different smaller ridges are the fertile Redlands and Fishing Creek Valleys, composed of the new red sandstone and red shale for-mations. Round Top, feet above sea level, and its quiet neighbor, Knell's Hill, are isolated peaks of basalt or trap formation in Warrington and Monoghan Townships. The Conewago Hills, isolated ridges of South Mountain, cross the county to ward York Haven. Above Wrightsville, as far as to the mouth of the Codorus Creek, extending westward toward the Harrisburg pike, is a wooded ridge of white sandstone, known as Hellam Hills. Between this and Conewago Hills there is a wide extent of red sandstone.
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