Dickson City, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,960 ft 600 m1,650 ft 505 m1,500 ft 455 m1,190 ft 360 m880 ft 270 m720 ft 220 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
Dickson City sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 740–1,000 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,960 ft 600 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,150 ft 350 m
all land inside borough limits
Dickson City spans about 1,240 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,960 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dickson City | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.9 mi southwest of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,150 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 6,010 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,253 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4715° N, 75.6077° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Lackawanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 18508 18519
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- South Abington Township1,390 ft
- Clarks Green1,380 ft
- Chinchilla1,360 ft
- Dunmore990 ft
- Archbald980 ft
- Jessup880 ft
- Throop850 ft
- Olyphant850 ft
- Scranton840 ft
- Blakely820 ft
- Dickson City780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,175th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County46th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- West Mountain, Lackawanna County2,150 ft
- Bell Mountain2,040 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.