Foster Township, Luzerne County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,980 ft 605 m1,730 ft 525 m1,610 ft 490 m1,360 ft 415 m1,110 ft 340 m990 ft 300 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
Foster Township, Luzerne County sits at about 1,610 ft (490 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,610 ft 490 m
most residents: 1,290–1,880 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the east side
Highest
1,980 ft 605 m
on the west side
Average
1,530 ft 465 m
all land inside township boundaries
Foster Township, Luzerne County spans about 990 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 | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 990 ft300 m |
| Airport (HZL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,603 ft489 m |
| Average of all land | 1,530 ft465 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.9 mi west to east through the middle of Foster Township, Luzerne County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,501 2024 est.
- Land area
- 44.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0271° N, 75.8409° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Lehigh River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hazleton Regional (HZL) 1,603 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 18201 18224 18255 18661
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Freeland1,860 ft
- Jeddo1,640 ft
- Foster Township, Luzerne County1,610 ft
- Hickory Hills1,450 ft
- Dennison Township1,300 ft
- Lausanne Township1,280 ft
- Lehigh Township, Carbon County1,260 ft
- East Side1,240 ft
- White Haven1,200 ft
- Weatherly1,180 ft
- Beech Mountain Lakes1,090 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania362nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County11th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Green Mountain, Luzerne County1,970 ft
- Buck Mountain, Luzerne County1,810 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.