Plymouth, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
860 ft 260 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 220 m640 ft 195 m550 ft 170 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Plymouth sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 540–650 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the east side
Highest
860 ft 260 m
on the west edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside borough limits
Plymouth spans about 350 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west edge, below higher ground just outside | 860 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 510 ft155 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Plymouth | 540 ft165 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northeast of the borough limits | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,810 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,415 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2404° N, 75.9446° 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
- 18651
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chase1,150 ft
- Courtdale810 ft
- Sugar Notch710 ft
- Plymouth Township, Luzerne County690 ft
- Larksville670 ft
- Ashley640 ft
- Hanover Township620 ft
- Edwardsville590 ft
- Wilkes-Barre590 ft
- Plymouth570 ft
- Kingston540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,668th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County93rd highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Larksville Mountain1,590 ft
- Honey Pot1,160 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.