Plains Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,720 ft 525 m1,420 ft 430 m1,270 ft 385 m970 ft 295 m670 ft 205 m520 ft 155 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
Plains Township sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
640 ft 195 m
most residents: 590–940 ft
Lowest
520 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
910 ft 280 m
all land inside township boundaries
Plains Township spans about 1,200 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 | 640 ft195 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 520 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plains Township | 650 ft200 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,999 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 764 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2754° N, 75.8502° 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 2
- 18702 18705
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laflin940 ft
- Inkerman730 ft
- Hudson650 ft
- Pringle650 ft
- Plains Township640 ft
- Plains630 ft
- Hilldale620 ft
- Wilkes-Barre590 ft
- Swoyersville550 ft
- Forty Fort550 ft
- Kingston540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,495th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County82nd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bald Mountain, Luzerne County2,150 ft
- Wyoming Mountain2,110 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.