Coal Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 520 m1,430 ft 435 m1,300 ft 395 m1,020 ft 310 m750 ft 230 m620 ft 190 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
Coal Township sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 260 m
most residents: 780–1,010 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,090 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Coal Township spans about 1,080 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 | 860 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (N79) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi north of the township boundaries | 881 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.2 mi west to east through the middle of Coal Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,665 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 367 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7900° N, 76.5653° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Northumberland County (N79) 881 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17866 17872
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kulpmont1,110 ft
- East Cameron Township940 ft
- Fairview-Ferndale920 ft
- Marshallton870 ft
- Ranshaw860 ft
- Coal Township860 ft
- Edgewood, Northumberland County830 ft
- West Cameron Township810 ft
- Shamokin750 ft
- Tharptown (Uniontown)660 ft
- Ralpho Township660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,010th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northumberland County12th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mahanoy Mountain1,790 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.