Fountain Springs, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,580 ft 485 m1,400 ft 425 m1,310 ft 400 m1,130 ft 345 m940 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fountain Springs sits at about 1,050 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,050 ft 320 m
most residents: 1,020–1,210 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the west side
Highest
1,580 ft 485 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,120 ft 340 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fountain Springs spans about 730 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 | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,580 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fountain Springs | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 1,120 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 256 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 456 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7712° N, 76.3247° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey (ZER) 1,730 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17921
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Aristes1,740 ft
- Wilburton Number Two1,730 ft
- Conyngham Township, Columbia County1,550 ft
- Centralia1,510 ft
- Butler Township, Schuylkill County1,100 ft
- Fountain Springs1,050 ft
- Locustdale1,050 ft
- Ashland1,020 ft
- Lavelle1,000 ft
- Girardville960 ft
- Gordon840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,564th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County34th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Ashland Mountain1,740 ft
- Ashland Anticline1,590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Fountain Springs is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.