La Plume Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,220 ft 375 m1,120 ft 345 m1,080 ft 330 m980 ft 300 m880 ft 270 m830 ft 255 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
La Plume Township sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 890–1,120 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Highest
1,220 ft 375 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
La Plume Township spans about 390 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for La Plume Township | 900 ft275 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 480 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 197 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5567° N, 75.7538° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 18414 18419 18440
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Waverly Township1,290 ft
- Waverly1,270 ft
- North Abington Township1,260 ft
- Benton Township1,220 ft
- Glenburn Township1,180 ft
- Glenburn1,160 ft
- West Abington Township1,160 ft
- Dalton1,060 ft
- Clinton Township, Wyoming County1,050 ft
- La Plume Township1,030 ft
- Factoryville880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,634th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County34th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Fairground Hill1,250 ft
- Wright Hill, Lackawanna County1,230 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.