Fishing Creek Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,470 ft 450 m1,330 ft 405 m1,040 ft 315 m750 ft 230 m600 ft 185 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
Fishing Creek Township sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
900 ft 275 m
most residents: 710–1,180 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on Knob Mountain
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside township boundaries
Fishing Creek Township spans about 1,170 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 | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Knob Mountain | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 600 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the middle of Fishing Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,569 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.4 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 55 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1346° N, 76.3364° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 4
- 17814 17859 17878 18655
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Benton Township, Columbia County1,020 ft
- Huntington Township, Luzerne County960 ft
- New Columbus910 ft
- Fishing Creek Township900 ft
- Briar Creek Township780 ft
- North Centre Township770 ft
- Benton760 ft
- Jonestown, Columbia County710 ft
- Stillwater700 ft
- Rohrsburg640 ft
- Orangeville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,939th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Columbia County18th highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Creveling Hill1,250 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.