Madison Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,020 ft 615 m1,870 ft 570 m1,790 ft 545 m1,640 ft 500 m1,490 ft 455 m1,410 ft 430 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
Madison Township sits at about 1,690 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,690 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,570–1,860 ft
Lowest
1,410 ft 430 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,020 ft 615 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,710 ft 520 m
all land inside township boundaries
Madison Township spans about 610 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 | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi west of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,710 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the middle of Madison Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,495 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 147 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3444° N, 75.4871° 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 1
- 18444
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pocono Springs2,090 ft
- Mount Cobb2,020 ft
- Eagle Lake1,910 ft
- Big Bass Lake1,900 ft
- Covington Township1,840 ft
- Moscow1,720 ft
- Madison Township1,690 ft
- Roaring Brook Township1,680 ft
- Jefferson Township, Lackawanna County1,650 ft
- Sterling Township1,610 ft
- Elmhurst Township1,510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania263rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County8th 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.