Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,310 ft 705 m2,060 ft 630 m1,940 ft 590 m1,700 ft 515 m1,450 ft 440 m1,330 ft 405 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
Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County sits at about 1,650 ft (505 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,650 ft 505 m
most residents: 1,530–2,060 ft
Lowest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the north side
Highest
2,310 ft 705 m
on the north side
Average
1,810 ft 555 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County spans about 980 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 | 1,650 ft505 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,310 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,810 ft555 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10.0 mi south to north through the middle of Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,890 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 116 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4281° N, 75.4823° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 18403 18436 18444
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Cobb2,020 ft
- Moscow1,720 ft
- Madison Township1,690 ft
- Roaring Brook Township1,680 ft
- Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County1,650 ft
- Elmhurst Township1,510 ft
- Lake Township1,470 ft
- Salem Township, Wayne County1,450 ft
- South Canaan Township1,400 ft
- Archbald980 ft
- Jessup880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania313th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County11th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mount Cobb1,830 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.