Northampton, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
480 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 m350 ft 110 m300 ft 90 m270 ft 85 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
Northampton sits at about 360 ft (110 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
360 ft 110 m
most residents: 310–410 ft
Lowest
270 ft 85 m
on the southeast side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Average
360 ft 110 m
all land inside borough limits
Northampton spans about 210 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 | 360 ft110 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 270 ft85 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Northampton | 320 ft100 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.1 mi southeast of the borough limits | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 360 ft110 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 10,587 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,285 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6862° N, 75.4969° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Lehigh Valley International (ABE) 394 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18067
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cementon480 ft
- Egypt470 ft
- Allen Township440 ft
- Laurys Station410 ft
- Coplay380 ft
- North Catasauqua370 ft
- Whitehall Township370 ft
- Stiles360 ft
- Northampton360 ft
- Hokendauqua340 ft
- Catasauqua340 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,255th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northampton County41st highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Clover Hill, Northampton County840 ft
- Sandstone Ridge, Lehigh County690 ft
- Laurel Hill, Lehigh County620 ft
- Sauerkraut Hill570 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. All public domain.