Forks Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m590 ft 180 m520 ft 155 m380 ft 115 m240 ft 70 m170 ft 50 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
Forks Township sits at about 380 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
380 ft 115 m
most residents: 340–420 ft
Lowest
170 ft 50 m
on the east side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on Chestnut Hill
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside township boundaries
Forks Township spans about 550 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 | 380 ft115 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Chestnut Hill | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 170 ft50 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the middle of Forks Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 16,663 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,380 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7236° N, 75.2218° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18040
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Stockertown400 ft
- Lopatcong Township, NJ390 ft
- Chestnut Hill380 ft
- Tatamy380 ft
- Wilson380 ft
- Forks Township380 ft
- Palmer Township370 ft
- Delaware Park, NJ360 ft
- West Easton330 ft
- Easton330 ft
- Phillipsburg, NJ310 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,200th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northampton County34th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Morgan Hill, Northampton County820 ft
- Chestnut Hill, Northampton County720 ft
- Church Hill, Northampton County640 ft
- Bixlers Bluff363 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.