New Castle Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,510 ft 460 m1,390 ft 425 m1,140 ft 345 m880 ft 270 m760 ft 230 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
New Castle Township sits at about 880 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 270 m
most residents: 850–930 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,360 ft 415 m
all land inside township boundaries
New Castle Township spans about 1,010 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 | 880 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Castle Township | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 1,360 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 352 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 29 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7301° N, 76.2116° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey (ZER) 1,730 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17901
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Heckscherville970 ft
- Seltzer900 ft
- New Castle Township880 ft
- Norwegian Township830 ft
- Mechanicsville830 ft
- Pottsville780 ft
- East Norwegian Township750 ft
- Minersville740 ft
- St. Clair740 ft
- Palo Alto670 ft
- Port Carbon670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,977th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County55th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Ashland Mountain1,740 ft
- Mine Hill, Schuylkill County1,460 ft
- Peaked Mountain1,410 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 380 ft at 40.7171° N, 76.2115° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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. All public domain.