Ranshaw, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

960 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Ranshaw sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

860 ft 260 m

most residents: 850–930 ft

Lowest

840 ft 255 m

on the west side

Highest

960 ft 295 m

at the foot of the Little Mountain

Average

870 ft 265 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Ranshaw spans about 120 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	860 ft260 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Little Mountain	960 ft295 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side	840 ft255 m
Town center USGS map point for Ranshaw	850 ft260 m
Airport (N79) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi northwest of the CDP boundary	881 ft269 m
Average of all land	870 ft265 m

Elevation profile, south to north

0.3 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
Population: 455 2020 Census
Land area: 0.1 sq mi
Density: 3,297 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.7859° N, 76.5180° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Valley and Ridge
Drains to: Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
Airport: Northumberland County (N79) 881 ft
ZIP codes 1: 17866

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Pennsylvania2,009th highest of 3,545
Towns in Northumberland County11th highest of 50

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
The Winehead2,363 ft
Miller Mountain2,200 ft
Mahanoy Mountain1,790 ft
Locust Mountain, Northumberland County1,650 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 840 ft at 40.7846° N, 76.5201° 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.
Ranshaw is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.