Clifton Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,200 ft 670 m2,040 ft 620 m1,960 ft 595 m1,790 ft 545 m1,630 ft 495 m1,550 ft 475 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
Clifton Township sits at about 1,880 ft (575 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,880 ft 575 m
most residents: 1,730–1,940 ft
Lowest
1,550 ft 475 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,200 ft 670 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,840 ft 560 m
all land inside township boundaries
Clifton Township spans about 650 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 | 1,880 ft575 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,200 ft670 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,550 ft475 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clifton Township | 1,630 ft495 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.8 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,840 ft560 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,512 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.4 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2229° N, 75.5477° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Lehigh River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18424
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pocono Springs2,090 ft
- Lehigh Township, Wayne County2,040 ft
- Gouldsboro1,940 ft
- Eagle Lake1,910 ft
- Big Bass Lake1,900 ft
- Clifton Township1,880 ft
- Buck Township1,860 ft
- Covington Township1,840 ft
- Thornhurst Township1,780 ft
- Moscow1,720 ft
- Spring Brook Township1,690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania138th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County4th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Panther Hill2,180 ft
- Blair Hill, Lackawanna County2,110 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.