Hegins Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,650 ft 500 m1,390 ft 425 m1,270 ft 385 m1,010 ft 310 m760 ft 230 m630 ft 195 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Hegins Township sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 730–1,220 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
1,650 ft 500 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hegins Township spans about 1,020 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,650 ft500 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 630 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hegins Township | 830 ft250 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,366 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.9 sq mi
- Density
- 105 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6515° N, 76.4977° 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 2
- 17938 17983
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tremont Township960 ft
- Eldred Township, Schuylkill County940 ft
- Frailey Township890 ft
- Donaldson880 ft
- Muir840 ft
- Reinerton820 ft
- Hegins820 ft
- Porter Township810 ft
- Hegins Township800 ft
- Orwin780 ft
- Valley View, Schuylkill County780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,118th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County69th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bear Mountain, Schuylkill County1,630 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.