Briar Creek, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m650 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m560 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 140 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
Briar Creek sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 490–640 ft
Lowest
470 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside borough limits
Briar Creek spans about 250 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 470 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Briar Creek | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (N13) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi southwest of the borough limits | 481 ft147 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 601 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 364 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0459° N, 76.2822° 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
- 18603
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Briar Creek Township780 ft
- Foundryville670 ft
- Salem Township, Luzerne County600 ft
- East Berwick590 ft
- Berwick540 ft
- Mifflin Township540 ft
- Nescopeck520 ft
- Mifflinville510 ft
- South Centre Township510 ft
- Lime Ridge500 ft
- Briar Creek490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,863rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Columbia County53rd highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Lee Mountain1,710 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).
- 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.