Bloomsburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 285 m820 ft 250 m760 ft 230 m640 ft 195 m520 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bloomsburg sits at about 530 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
530 ft 160 m
most residents: 480–680 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
940 ft 285 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside town limits
Bloomsburg spans about 490 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 | 530 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 940 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 450 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bloomsburg | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (N13) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 481 ft147 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 13,286 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,056 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0037° N, 76.4549° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Bloomsburg Municipal (N13) 481 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17815
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Catawissa Township810 ft
- Main Township790 ft
- Lightstreet670 ft
- Hemlock Township650 ft
- Buckhorn650 ft
- Fernville620 ft
- Montour Township610 ft
- Scott Township, Columbia County550 ft
- Bloomsburg530 ft
- Rupert490 ft
- Espy490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,780th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Columbia County49th highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Turkey Hill, Columbia County940 ft
- Full Mill Hill850 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town limits (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.