Branch Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 445 m1,260 ft 385 m1,160 ft 355 m950 ft 290 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Branch Township sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 740–900 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,470 ft 445 m
on the south side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
Branch Township spans about 830 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,470 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 640 ft195 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the middle of Branch Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,764 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 154 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6766° N, 76.2710° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey (ZER) 1,730 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17901 17944
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cass Township1,010 ft
- Heckscherville970 ft
- Reilly Township960 ft
- Forestville940 ft
- Seltzer900 ft
- Branch Township860 ft
- Branchdale830 ft
- Norwegian Township830 ft
- Llewellyn750 ft
- Minersville740 ft
- Marlin740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,011th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County59th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mine Hill, Schuylkill County1,460 ft
- Peaked Mountain1,410 ft
- Swatara Hill910 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. All public domain.