Elmhurst Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,710 ft 525 m1,620 ft 495 m1,570 ft 480 m1,480 ft 450 m1,380 ft 420 m1,330 ft 405 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
Elmhurst Township sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,510 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,410–1,560 ft
Lowest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,710 ft 525 m
at the foot of the Moosic Mountains
Average
1,500 ft 455 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elmhurst Township spans about 380 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 | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, at the foot of the Moosic Mountains | 1,710 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elmhurst Township | 1,370 ft420 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi west of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,500 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 840 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 456 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3779° N, 75.5446° 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
- 18444
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Cobb2,020 ft
- Covington Township1,840 ft
- Moscow1,720 ft
- Madison Township1,690 ft
- Spring Brook Township1,690 ft
- Roaring Brook Township1,680 ft
- Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County1,650 ft
- Elmhurst Township1,510 ft
- Dunmore990 ft
- Jessup880 ft
- Throop850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania494th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County15th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Coon Hill, Lackawanna County2,000 ft
- Mount Cobb1,830 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.