Northmoreland Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,020 ft 615 m1,660 ft 505 m1,480 ft 450 m1,110 ft 340 m750 ft 230 m560 ft 170 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
Northmoreland Township sits at about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,130 ft 345 m
most residents: 990–1,360 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,020 ft 615 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Northmoreland Township spans about 1,460 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 | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,020 ft615 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.6 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the middle of Northmoreland Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,410 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4361° N, 75.9323° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 18612 18615 18618 18657
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ransom Township1,290 ft
- Franklin Township, Luzerne County1,280 ft
- Northmoreland Township1,130 ft
- Monroe Township, Wyoming County1,130 ft
- Exeter Township, Luzerne County1,070 ft
- Lake Winola1,050 ft
- Eaton Township1,030 ft
- Falls Township, Wyoming County970 ft
- Upper Exeter780 ft
- Exeter Township, Wyoming County650 ft
- West Falls610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,296th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Wyoming County3rd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Shaver Mountain2,150 ft
- Brier Mountain, Wyoming County2,030 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).
- 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.