Glen Lyon, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,130 ft 345 m1,030 ft 315 m810 ft 250 m600 ft 185 m490 ft 150 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Glen Lyon sits at about 730 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
730 ft 220 m
most residents: 590–1,070 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the west side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the north side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Glen Lyon spans about 860 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 | 730 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 490 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Glen Lyon | 670 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,877 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 522 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1751° N, 76.0746° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 18617
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hunlock Township1,110 ft
- Slocum Township1,100 ft
- Wanamie770 ft
- Glen Lyon730 ft
- Conyngham Township720 ft
- Newport Township710 ft
- Sheatown670 ft
- Nanticoke650 ft
- Shickshinny650 ft
- West Nanticoke600 ft
- Mocanaqua550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,295th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County64th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Shickshinny Mountain1,540 ft
- Little Wilkes-Barre Mountain1,530 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.
- Glen Lyon 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.