Hughestown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m650 ft 195 m620 ft 190 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
Hughestown sits at about 750 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 230 m
most residents: 670–820 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the northwest side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the east side
Average
750 ft 230 m
all land inside borough limits
Hughestown spans about 250 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 | 750 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Hughestown | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi east of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 750 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,357 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,560 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3270° N, 75.7732° 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
- 18640
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pittston Township800 ft
- Yatesville790 ft
- Dupont770 ft
- Hughestown750 ft
- Avoca730 ft
- Jenkins Township730 ft
- Browntown720 ft
- Duryea650 ft
- Pittston640 ft
- West Pittston570 ft
- Exeter560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,256th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County61st highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Peterson Mountain1,590 ft
- Mount Lookout1,490 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.