Bear Creek Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,170 ft 660 m1,910 ft 580 m1,780 ft 545 m1,520 ft 465 m1,270 ft 385 m1,140 ft 345 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bear Creek Township sits at about 1,860 ft (565 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,860 ft 565 m
most residents: 1,370–1,990 ft
Lowest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the north side
Highest
2,170 ft 660 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,790 ft 545 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bear Creek Township spans about 1,030 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 | 1,860 ft565 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,170 ft660 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi north of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,790 ft545 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.1 mi south to north through the middle of Bear Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,809 2024 est.
- Land area
- 67.2 sq mi + 1.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1909° N, 75.7710° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Lehigh River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 18661 18702
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Buck Township1,860 ft
- Bear Creek Township1,860 ft
- Bear Creek Village1,600 ft
- Fairview Township, Luzerne County1,510 ft
- Mountain Top1,410 ft
- Penn Lake Park1,340 ft
- Laurel Run1,310 ft
- Georgetown750 ft
- Wilkes-Barre Township710 ft
- Hudson650 ft
- Ashley640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania154th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County3rd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bald Mountain, Luzerne County2,150 ft
- Wyoming Mountain2,110 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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.