Gordon, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 295 m930 ft 280 m900 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 235 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gordon sits at about 840 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
840 ft 255 m
most residents: 810–910 ft
Lowest
780 ft 235 m
on the southwest side
Highest
980 ft 295 m
at the foot of the Little Mountain
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside borough limits
Gordon spans about 200 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 | 840 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Little Mountain | 980 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 780 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gordon | 850 ft260 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 769 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,297 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7518° N, 76.3361° 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
- 17936
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Centralia1,510 ft
- Foster Township, Schuylkill County1,380 ft
- Buck Run1,320 ft
- Butler Township, Schuylkill County1,100 ft
- Fountain Springs1,050 ft
- Locustdale1,050 ft
- Ashland1,020 ft
- Lavelle1,000 ft
- Beurys Lake990 ft
- Heckscherville970 ft
- Gordon840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,044th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County61st highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Ashland Anticline1,590 ft
- Peaked Mountain1,410 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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.