Carbondale Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,250 ft 685 m1,930 ft 590 m1,770 ft 540 m1,450 ft 440 m1,130 ft 345 m970 ft 295 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Carbondale Township sits at about 1,340 ft (410 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,340 ft 410 m
most residents: 1,010–1,750 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,250 ft 685 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Carbondale Township spans about 1,280 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 | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,250 ft685 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 970 ft295 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the middle of Carbondale Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,150 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 83 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5573° N, 75.5178° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Lackawanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 18407 18433
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- 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
- Archbald980 ft
- Jermyn970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania773rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County19th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 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).
- 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, 960 ft at 41.5551° N, 75.5229° 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.