Mount Carmel, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,230 ft 375 m1,200 ft 365 m1,130 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 m1,040 ft 315 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
Mount Carmel sits at about 1,090 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,090 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,060–1,150 ft
Lowest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
at the foot of the Little Mountain
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside borough limits
Mount Carmel spans about 250 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 | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Little Mountain | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mount Carmel | 1,110 ft335 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi south of the borough limits | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,626 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 8,498 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7970° N, 76.4119° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey (ZER) 1,730 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17851
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wilburton Number Two1,730 ft
- Conyngham Township, Columbia County1,550 ft
- Wilburton Number One1,510 ft
- Marion Heights1,380 ft
- Locust Gap1,220 ft
- Atlas1,110 ft
- Mount Carmel Township1,110 ft
- Strong1,090 ft
- Mount Carmel1,090 ft
- Locustdale1,050 ft
- Lavelle1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,449th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northumberland County7th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Big Mountain, Columbia County1,820 ft
- Locust Mountain, Northumberland County1,650 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.