Nicholson, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,110 ft 340 m1,010 ft 310 m960 ft 290 m860 ft 260 m750 ft 230 m700 ft 215 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
Nicholson sits at about 750 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
750 ft 225 m
most residents: 720–1,010 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,110 ft 340 m
on the north side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside borough limits
Nicholson spans about 410 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 | 750 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Nicholson | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 728 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 629 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.6262° N, 75.7805° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 18446
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North Abington Township1,260 ft
- Benton Township1,220 ft
- Lathrop Township1,170 ft
- West Abington Township1,160 ft
- Nicholson Township, Wyoming County1,070 ft
- Dalton1,060 ft
- Clinton Township, Wyoming County1,050 ft
- La Plume Township1,030 ft
- Factoryville880 ft
- Hop Bottom880 ft
- Nicholson750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,264th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Wyoming County22nd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Wyoming County1,250 ft
- Nicholson Hill1,130 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.