Butler Township, Schuylkill County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,790 ft 545 m1,520 ft 460 m1,380 ft 420 m1,100 ft 335 m820 ft 250 m680 ft 210 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, Schuylkill County sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 910–1,620 ft
Lowest
680 ft 210 m
on the west side
Highest
1,790 ft 545 m
on the east side
Average
1,220 ft 375 m
all land inside township boundaries
Butler Township, Schuylkill County spans about 1,110 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 680 ft210 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 1,220 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.7 mi south to north through the middle of Butler Township, Schuylkill County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,048 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.0 sq mi
- Density
- 194 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7600° N, 76.3310° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey (ZER) 1,730 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 17921 17931 17935 17943
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Centralia1,510 ft
- Foster Township, Schuylkill County1,380 ft
- Buck Run1,320 ft
- Butler Township, Schuylkill County1,100 ft
- Fountain Springs1,050 ft
- Locustdale1,050 ft
- Ashland1,020 ft
- Lavelle1,000 ft
- Beurys Lake990 ft
- Girardville960 ft
- Gordon840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,406th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County33rd highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Ashland Mountain1,740 ft
- Ashland Anticline1,590 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.