Butler Township, Luzerne County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,010 ft 610 m1,730 ft 525 m1,590 ft 485 m1,310 ft 400 m1,030 ft 315 m890 ft 270 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
Butler Township, Luzerne County sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,040–1,670 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the west side
Highest
2,010 ft 610 m
on the east side
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside township boundaries
Butler Township, Luzerne County spans about 1,120 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,010 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 890 ft270 m |
| Airport (HZL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.7 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,603 ft489 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.8 mi west to east through the middle of Butler Township, Luzerne County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 10,141 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 301 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0343° N, 75.9727° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hazleton Regional (HZL) 1,603 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 18202 18222 18224 18249
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Freeland1,860 ft
- Hazleton1,690 ft
- Pardeesville1,680 ft
- Lattimer1,650 ft
- Harleigh1,650 ft
- Jeddo1,640 ft
- Hazle Township1,630 ft
- Butler Township, Luzerne County1,120 ft
- Dorrance Township1,100 ft
- Beech Mountain Lakes1,090 ft
- Conyngham990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,352nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County38th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Buck Mountain, Luzerne County1,980 ft
- Butler Mountain1,720 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.