Luzerne Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,160 ft 355 m1,090 ft 335 m950 ft 290 m810 ft 245 m740 ft 225 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
Luzerne 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: 980–1,130 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the east side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside township boundaries
Luzerne Township spans about 560 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 southeast side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Luzerne Township | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,384 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.6 sq mi + 1.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 182 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9992° N, 79.9628° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 9
- 15410 15413 15417 15433 15444 15447 15450 15463 15475
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Deemston1,140 ft
- Centerville1,120 ft
- Crucible1,050 ft
- Luzerne Township1,030 ft
- Hiller1,020 ft
- Rices Landing950 ft
- Fredericktown930 ft
- Aaronsburg, Washington County930 ft
- East Bethlehem Township930 ft
- West Brownsville930 ft
- Millsboro880 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,641st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County44th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Knob, Greene County1,480 ft
- River Hills1,410 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Sunshine Hill1,200 ft
- Locks Hill1,190 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.