Great Bend, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m960 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m860 ft 265 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
Great Bend sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 880–910 ft
Lowest
860 ft 265 m
on the west side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside borough limits
Great Bend spans about 160 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 860 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Great Bend | 890 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 618 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 2,116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9717° N, 75.7432° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 18821
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township, Susquehanna County1,570 ft
- New Milford Township1,540 ft
- Oakland Township, Susquehanna County1,510 ft
- Liberty Township, Susquehanna County1,440 ft
- New Milford1,100 ft
- Great Bend Township1,070 ft
- Borough of Oakland1,000 ft
- Kirkwood, NY980 ft
- Conklin, NY900 ft
- Hallstead890 ft
- Great Bend890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,952nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Susquehanna County45th highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Penny Hill1,500 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.