Palmerton, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m710 ft 220 m660 ft 200 m550 ft 165 m440 ft 135 m380 ft 115 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
Palmerton sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 400–540 ft
Lowest
380 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
at the foot of the Indian Hills
Average
480 ft 145 m
all land inside borough limits
Palmerton spans about 440 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Indian Hills | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 380 ft115 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Palmerton | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (ABE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi southeast of the borough limits | 394 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 480 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,634 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,267 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8015° N, 75.6102° 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
- 18071
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Towamensing Township940 ft
- Franklin Township, Carbon County730 ft
- Parryville720 ft
- Lower Towamensing Township710 ft
- Washington Township, Lehigh County680 ft
- Lehigh Township660 ft
- Slatedale520 ft
- Bowmanstown490 ft
- Slatington480 ft
- Palmerton440 ft
- Walnutport410 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,030th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Carbon Countylowest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Clover Hill, Northampton County840 ft
- Hungary Hill810 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.