East Penn Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,650 ft 505 m1,330 ft 405 m1,170 ft 360 m850 ft 260 m540 ft 165 m380 ft 115 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
East Penn Township 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: 550–910 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the east side
Highest
1,650 ft 505 m
on the east side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside township boundaries
East Penn Township spans about 1,270 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 township boundaries, on the east side | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 380 ft115 m |
| Airport (22N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.1 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 534 ft163 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.4 mi west to east through the middle of East Penn Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,796 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7811° N, 75.7284° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jake Arner Memorial (22N) 534 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 18211 18212 18235
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Penn Township780 ft
- Mahoning Township, Carbon County760 ft
- Franklin Township, Carbon County730 ft
- Parryville720 ft
- Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County690 ft
- Washington Township, Lehigh County680 ft
- Lehighton570 ft
- Weissport East560 ft
- Slatedale520 ft
- Bowmanstown490 ft
- Weissport460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,170th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Carbon County19th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bake Oven Knob1,590 ft
- Bears Rocks1,560 ft
- Mahoning Hills950 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. All public domain.