Dalton, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,210 ft 370 m1,160 ft 355 m1,060 ft 325 m960 ft 295 m910 ft 275 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Dalton sits at about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
most residents: 980–1,260 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,120 ft 340 m
all land inside borough limits
Dalton spans about 400 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 | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 910 ft275 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dalton | 980 ft295 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,120 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,293 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 428 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5342° N, 75.7360° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18414
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clarks Green1,380 ft
- Clarks Summit1,340 ft
- Waverly Township1,290 ft
- Waverly1,270 ft
- North Abington Township1,260 ft
- Glenburn Township1,180 ft
- Glenburn1,160 ft
- West Abington Township1,160 ft
- Dalton1,060 ft
- La Plume Township1,030 ft
- Factoryville880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,539th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County33rd highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Wilbur Hill1,650 ft
- Fairground Hill1,250 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough 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 borough limits (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.