Laflin, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m820 ft 250 m740 ft 225 m700 ft 215 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
Laflin sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 840–980 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside borough limits
Laflin spans about 320 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Laflin | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi northeast of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,467 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,115 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2890° N, 75.8055° 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
- 18702
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laflin940 ft
- Yatesville790 ft
- Jenkins Township730 ft
- Inkerman730 ft
- Browntown720 ft
- Hudson650 ft
- Plains Township640 ft
- Plains630 ft
- Hilldale620 ft
- Wyoming570 ft
- Exeter560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,861st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County52nd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bald Mountain, Luzerne County2,150 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.