Pittston Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,130 ft 650 m1,750 ft 535 m1,570 ft 475 m1,190 ft 365 m820 ft 250 m630 ft 190 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
Pittston Township sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 670–1,340 ft
Lowest
630 ft 190 m
on the west side
Highest
2,130 ft 650 m
on Little Shiney Mountain
Average
1,240 ft 375 m
all land inside township boundaries
Pittston Township spans about 1,500 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Little Shiney Mountain | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 630 ft190 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,240 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.9 mi west to east through the middle of Pittston Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,263 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.5 sq mi
- Density
- 242 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3144° N, 75.7530° 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 2
- 18640 18641
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Moosic840 ft
- Pittston Township800 ft
- Yatesville790 ft
- Dupont770 ft
- Hughestown750 ft
- Avoca730 ft
- Jenkins Township730 ft
- Browntown720 ft
- Duryea650 ft
- Pittston640 ft
- West Pittston570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,120th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County56th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mount Pisgah, Luzerne County2,130 ft
- Little Shiney Mountain2,130 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.