Forest Lake Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 590 m1,700 ft 520 m1,580 ft 480 m1,330 ft 405 m1,090 ft 335 m970 ft 295 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
Forest Lake Township sits at about 1,550 ft (470 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,550 ft 470 m
most residents: 1,300–1,790 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,940 ft 590 m
near the middle
Average
1,490 ft 455 m
all land inside township boundaries
Forest Lake Township spans about 970 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 | 1,550 ft470 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forest Lake Township | 1,530 ft470 m |
| Average of all land | 1,490 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,102 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 37 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8842° N, 75.9594° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 18801 18818
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laurel Lake1,660 ft
- Montrose1,650 ft
- Silver Lake Township1,640 ft
- Forest Lake1,620 ft
- Bridgewater Township1,610 ft
- Franklin Township, Susquehanna County1,570 ft
- Forest Lake Township1,550 ft
- Friendsville1,470 ft
- Jessup Township1,450 ft
- Choconut Township1,430 ft
- Middletown Township, Susquehanna County1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania445th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Susquehanna County15th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Birchard Hill1,820 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.