Pottsville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 410 m1,150 ft 350 m1,060 ft 325 m870 ft 265 m690 ft 210 m590 ft 180 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pottsville sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 660–900 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the southwest side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside city limits
Pottsville spans about 750 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pottsville | 630 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 13,404 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,217 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6856° N, 76.1955° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 17901
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seltzer900 ft
- Norwegian Township830 ft
- Mechanicsville830 ft
- Pottsville780 ft
- East Norwegian Township750 ft
- North Manheim Township750 ft
- Marlin740 ft
- St. Clair740 ft
- Palo Alto670 ft
- Port Carbon670 ft
- Mount Carbon640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,171st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County76th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Mine Hill, Schuylkill County1,460 ft
- Peaked Mountain1,410 ft
- Summer Hill1,010 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 590 ft at 40.6774° N, 76.1890° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.