Luzerne, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,400 ft 425 m1,180 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m860 ft 265 m650 ft 200 m540 ft 165 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Luzerne sits at about 580 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 180 m
most residents: 550–700 ft
Lowest
550 ft 165 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the north side
Average
730 ft 220 m
all land inside borough limits
Luzerne 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 | 580 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 550 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Luzerne | 610 ft185 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.3 mi east of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,752 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 3,893 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2856° N, 75.9010° 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
- 18709
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kingston Township1,170 ft
- Trucksville1,120 ft
- Courtdale810 ft
- Pringle650 ft
- Plains Township640 ft
- Plains630 ft
- Edwardsville590 ft
- Luzerne580 ft
- Swoyersville550 ft
- Forty Fort550 ft
- Kingston540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,641st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County92nd 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
- Bunker Hill, Luzerne County1,540 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 540 ft at 41.2788° N, 75.8882° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.