Avoca, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 250 m740 ft 225 m670 ft 205 m630 ft 190 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
Avoca sits at about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 220 m
most residents: 680–790 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
730 ft 225 m
all land inside borough limits
Avoca spans about 290 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 630 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Avoca | 810 ft250 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.3 mi east of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,554 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 2,504 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3398° N, 75.7363° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18641
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moosic840 ft
- Pittston Township800 ft
- Yatesville790 ft
- Dupont770 ft
- Hughestown750 ft
- Old Forge740 ft
- Avoca730 ft
- Browntown720 ft
- Duryea650 ft
- Pittston640 ft
- West Pittston570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,292nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County63rd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mount Pisgah, Luzerne County2,130 ft
- Peterson Mountain1,590 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).
- 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, 630 ft at 41.3418° N, 75.7485° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.