Port Carbon, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 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
Port Carbon sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 630–790 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
at the foot of the Broad Mountain
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside borough limits
Port Carbon spans about 260 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Broad Mountain | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Port Carbon | 660 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,810 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,401 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6965° N, 76.1688° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17965
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Castle Township880 ft
- Blythe Township870 ft
- Mechanicsville830 ft
- Pottsville780 ft
- East Norwegian Township750 ft
- St. Clair740 ft
- New Philadelphia710 ft
- Cumbola690 ft
- Palo Alto670 ft
- Port Carbon670 ft
- Mount Carbon640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,409th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County96th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Ashland Mountain1,740 ft
- Mine Hill, Schuylkill County1,460 ft
- Peaked Mountain1,410 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.