Fairmount Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,450 ft 745 m2,040 ft 620 m1,840 ft 560 m1,430 ft 435 m1,010 ft 310 m810 ft 245 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
Fairmount Township sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,020–1,340 ft
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,450 ft 745 m
on North Mountain
Average
1,520 ft 465 m
all land inside township boundaries
Fairmount Township spans about 1,640 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on North Mountain | 2,450 ft745 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 810 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 1,520 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
11 mi south to north through the middle of Fairmount Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,233 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.7 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 27 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2630° N, 76.2657° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 17814 18655 18656
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ross Township, Luzerne County1,270 ft
- Fairmount Township1,250 ft
- Waller1,230 ft
- Elk Grove1,200 ft
- Sugarloaf Township, Columbia County1,170 ft
- Jamison City1,030 ft
- Benton Township, Columbia County1,020 ft
- Union Township, Luzerne County1,000 ft
- Huntington Township, Luzerne County960 ft
- New Columbus910 ft
- Benton760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania958th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County27th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bethel Hill1,430 ft
- Jackson Hill, Luzerne County1,380 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.