Old Forge, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m940 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m750 ft 230 m630 ft 190 m570 ft 175 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
Old Forge sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 660–800 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
730 ft 225 m
all land inside borough limits
Old Forge spans about 500 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Old Forge | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi south of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,654 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.4 sq mi
- Density
- 2,525 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3712° N, 75.7349° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18518
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moosic840 ft
- Scranton840 ft
- Taylor800 ft
- Pittston Township800 ft
- Dupont770 ft
- Hughestown750 ft
- Old Forge740 ft
- Avoca730 ft
- Duryea650 ft
- Pittston640 ft
- West Pittston570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,273rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna Countylowest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Bald Mountain, Lackawanna County2,280 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Peterson Mountain1,590 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.