Mountain Top, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,870 ft 570 m1,670 ft 510 m1,570 ft 475 m1,360 ft 415 m1,160 ft 355 m1,060 ft 325 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Mountain Top sits at about 1,410 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,410 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,230–1,580 ft
Lowest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,870 ft 570 m
on the south side
Average
1,430 ft 435 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Mountain Top spans about 810 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 | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,870 ft570 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mountain Top | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,430 ft435 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 11,489 2020 Census
- Land area
- 15.0 sq mi
- Density
- 765 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1695° N, 75.8774° 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
- 18707
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fairview Township, Luzerne County1,510 ft
- Mountain Top1,410 ft
- Wright Township1,380 ft
- Laurel Run1,310 ft
- Rice Township1,210 ft
- Georgetown750 ft
- Sugar Notch710 ft
- Wilkes-Barre Township710 ft
- Warrior Run660 ft
- Ashley640 ft
- Hanover Township620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania635th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County15th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Haystack Mountain1,860 ft
- Little Nescopeck Mountain1,540 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Mountain Top is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.