Dennison Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
2,010 ft 615 m1,770 ft 540 m1,640 ft 500 m1,400 ft 425 m1,150 ft 350 m1,030 ft 315 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Dennison Township sits at about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,300 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,210–1,390 ft
Lowest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the west side
Highest
2,010 ft 615 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,380 ft 420 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dennison Township spans about 980 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 | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,010 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Average of all land | 1,380 ft420 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the middle of Dennison Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 998 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.3 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0908° N, 75.7999° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 18661 18707
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bear Creek Township1,860 ft
- Foster Township, Luzerne County1,610 ft
- Bear Creek Village1,600 ft
- Fairview Township, Luzerne County1,510 ft
- Hickory Hills1,450 ft
- Mountain Top1,410 ft
- Wright Township1,380 ft
- Penn Lake Park1,340 ft
- Dennison Township1,300 ft
- East Side1,240 ft
- White Haven1,200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania850th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County21st highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mount Yeager1,920 ft
- Pine Mountain, Luzerne County1,410 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.