Burnham, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
940 ft 290 m830 ft 255 m780 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m550 ft 170 m500 ft 150 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Burnham sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 530–620 ft
Lowest
500 ft 150 m
on the south side
Highest
940 ft 290 m
at the foot of the Jacks Mountain
Average
580 ft 180 m
all land inside borough limits
Burnham spans about 440 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Jacks Mountain | 940 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 500 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burnham | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (RVL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi northwest of the borough limits | 819 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,966 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,869 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6387° N, 77.5686° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Juniata River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Mifflin County (RVL) 819 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17009
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Maitland800 ft
- Church Hill790 ft
- Brown Township790 ft
- Lumber City730 ft
- Derry Township, Mifflin County600 ft
- Reedsville600 ft
- Yeagertown590 ft
- Highland Park580 ft
- Juniata Terrace570 ft
- Burnham570 ft
- Lewistown510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,682nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Mifflin County31st highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 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.