Nesquehoning, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,700 ft 520 m1,410 ft 430 m1,260 ft 385 m970 ft 295 m680 ft 205 m530 ft 160 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
Nesquehoning sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 790–1,370 ft
Lowest
530 ft 160 m
on the east side
Highest
1,700 ft 520 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,270 ft 385 m
all land inside borough limits
Nesquehoning spans about 1,170 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 1,700 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 530 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nesquehoning | 820 ft250 m |
| Airport (22N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi southeast of the borough limits | 534 ft163 m |
| Average of all land | 1,270 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,343 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.2 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 158 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8645° N, 75.8110° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jake Arner Memorial (22N) 534 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18240
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Summit Hill1,510 ft
- Packer Township1,250 ft
- Weatherly1,180 ft
- Lansford1,130 ft
- Coaldale1,050 ft
- Nesquehoning860 ft
- Jim Thorpe790 ft
- Mahoning Township, Carbon County760 ft
- Lehighton570 ft
- Weissport East560 ft
- Weissport460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,000th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Carbon County17th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Locust Mountain, Carbon County1,510 ft
- Indian Mountain1,440 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.