Carbondale, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,510 ft 460 m1,380 ft 420 m1,320 ft 400 m1,190 ft 360 m1,060 ft 320 m990 ft 305 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carbondale sits at about 1,140 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,060–1,220 ft
Lowest
990 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,510 ft 460 m
at the foot of the Moosic Mountains
Average
1,160 ft 350 m
all land inside city limits
Carbondale spans about 520 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 | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, at the foot of the Moosic Mountains | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 990 ft305 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carbondale | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,160 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,805 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 2,715 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5737° N, 75.5019° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Lackawanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 18407
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Forest City1,650 ft
- Greenfield Township, Lackawanna County1,610 ft
- Vandling1,590 ft
- Waymart1,430 ft
- Canaan Township1,420 ft
- Carbondale Township1,340 ft
- Fell Township1,310 ft
- Simpson1,200 ft
- Carbondale1,140 ft
- Mayfield990 ft
- Jermyn970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,279th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County32nd highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- Salem Hill2,260 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 980 ft at 41.5613° N, 75.5162° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.