Centralia, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,660 ft 505 m1,600 ft 490 m1,570 ft 480 m1,520 ft 465 m1,460 ft 445 m1,430 ft 435 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Centralia sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside borough limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,510 ft 460 m
few residents
Lowest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the west side
Highest
1,660 ft 505 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,520 ft 465 m
all land inside borough limits
Centralia spans about 230 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,660 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Centralia | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi south of the borough limits | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8043° N, 76.3405° 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 1
- 17888
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aristes1,740 ft
- Wilburton Number Two1,730 ft
- Conyngham Township, Columbia County1,550 ft
- Wilburton Number One1,510 ft
- Centralia1,510 ft
- Butler Township, Schuylkill County1,100 ft
- Fountain Springs1,050 ft
- Locustdale1,050 ft
- Ashland1,020 ft
- Lavelle1,000 ft
- Girardville960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania497th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Columbia County5th highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Big Mountain, Columbia County1,820 ft
- Ashland Anticline1,590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the borough limits; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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).
- 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, 1,430 ft at 40.8051° N, 76.3482° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.