Benton Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,320 ft 400 m1,220 ft 375 m1,040 ft 315 m850 ft 260 m750 ft 230 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
Benton Township sits at about 1,220 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,110–1,350 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the north side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
on Finn Hill
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside township boundaries
Benton Township spans about 760 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 | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Finn Hill | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Nearest peak North Knob, 6.9 mi northeast of the township boundaries (NGS survey) | 2,692 ft821 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.8 mi south to north through the middle of Benton Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,742 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.1 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5933° N, 75.7116° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 5
- 18414 18419 18420 18433 18446
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Scott Township, Lackawanna County1,550 ft
- Waverly Township1,290 ft
- Waverly1,270 ft
- North Abington Township1,260 ft
- Benton Township1,220 ft
- Glenburn Township1,180 ft
- Glenburn1,160 ft
- Dalton1,060 ft
- La Plume Township1,030 ft
- Factoryville880 ft
- Nicholson750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,021st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County27th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Church Hill, Lackawanna County1,300 ft
- Bull Hill, Lackawanna County1,260 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.