Riverside, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m810 ft 245 m750 ft 225 m620 ft 190 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Riverside sits at about 520 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 155 m
most residents: 470–640 ft
Lowest
430 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside borough limits
Riverside spans about 500 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 | 520 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 430 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Riverside | 500 ft150 m |
| Airport (8N8) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 559 ft170 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,004 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.9 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 406 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9554° N, 76.6288° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Danville (8N8) 559 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 17821 17868
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Hemlock Township940 ft
- Rush Township, Northumberland County840 ft
- Mayberry Township820 ft
- Cooper Township, Montour County760 ft
- Valley Township, Montour County660 ft
- Mahoning Township630 ft
- Borough of Snydertown630 ft
- Liberty Township610 ft
- Derry Township, Montour County540 ft
- Riverside520 ft
- Danville470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,805th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northumberland County39th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Blue Hill1,000 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.