Hanover Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 655 m1,730 ft 530 m1,530 ft 465 m1,120 ft 340 m710 ft 215 m510 ft 155 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hanover Township sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 540–690 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the west side
Highest
2,140 ft 655 m
on the southeast side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hanover Township spans about 1,630 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,140 ft655 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.5 mi south to north through the middle of Hanover Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 11,704 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 618 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2212° N, 75.9291° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18706
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Georgetown750 ft
- Sugar Notch710 ft
- Wilkes-Barre Township710 ft
- Larksville670 ft
- Warrior Run660 ft
- Ashley640 ft
- Hanover Township620 ft
- Edwardsville590 ft
- Wilkes-Barre590 ft
- Plymouth570 ft
- Kingston540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,550th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County85th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Haystack Mountain1,860 ft
- Penobscot Mountain1,800 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.