Jackson Township, Luzerne County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,590 ft 485 m1,380 ft 420 m1,270 ft 390 m1,060 ft 325 m850 ft 260 m740 ft 225 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
Jackson Township, Luzerne County sits at about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,130 ft 345 m
most residents: 1,090–1,230 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Highest
1,590 ft 485 m
on Larksville Mountain
Average
1,150 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jackson Township, Luzerne County spans about 850 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 | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Larksville Mountain | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi east of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,150 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.2 mi west to east through the middle of Jackson Township, Luzerne County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,582 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 347 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2761° N, 75.9900° 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 4
- 18612 18621 18651 18708
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lehman Township, Luzerne County1,260 ft
- Chase1,150 ft
- Jackson Township, Luzerne County1,130 ft
- Shavertown1,120 ft
- Trucksville1,120 ft
- Courtdale810 ft
- Plymouth Township, Luzerne County690 ft
- Larksville670 ft
- West Nanticoke600 ft
- Edwardsville590 ft
- Plymouth570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,302nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County37th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Larksville Mountain1,590 ft
- Friendship Hill, Luzerne County1,300 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.