Ransom Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,240 ft 680 m1,810 ft 555 m1,600 ft 490 m1,180 ft 360 m750 ft 230 m540 ft 165 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Ransom Township sits at about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
most residents: 680–1,690 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,240 ft 680 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,290 ft 390 m
all land inside township boundaries
Ransom Township spans about 1,700 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 2,240 ft680 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 540 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ransom Township | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 1,290 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,447 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 81 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3942° N, 75.8219° 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
- 18411 18504
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ransom Township1,290 ft
- Franklin Township, Luzerne County1,280 ft
- Exeter Township, Luzerne County1,070 ft
- Falls Township, Wyoming County970 ft
- Upper Exeter780 ft
- Old Forge740 ft
- Exeter Township, Wyoming County650 ft
- Pittston640 ft
- West Falls610 ft
- West Pittston570 ft
- Exeter560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania853rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lackawanna County23rd highest of 47
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Bald Mountain, Lackawanna County2,280 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- West Mountain, Lackawanna County2,150 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.