Moscow, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,890 ft 580 m1,780 ft 540 m1,720 ft 525 m1,600 ft 490 m1,480 ft 450 m1,420 ft 435 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
Moscow sits at about 1,720 ft (525 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,720 ft 525 m
most residents: 1,520–1,790 ft
Lowest
1,420 ft 435 m
on the north side
Highest
1,890 ft 575 m
on the west side
Average
1,680 ft 510 m
all land inside borough limits
Moscow spans about 470 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 | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 1,890 ft575 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Moscow | 1,570 ft475 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi west of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft510 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,020 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Density
- 709 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3367° N, 75.5185° 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
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Cobb2,020 ft
- Eagle Lake1,910 ft
- Big Bass Lake1,900 ft
- Covington Township1,840 ft
- Moscow1,720 ft
- Madison Township1,690 ft
- Spring Brook 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 Pennsylvania247th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County7th highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Coon Hill, Lackawanna County2,000 ft
- Mount Cobb1,830 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.