Rush Township, Schuylkill County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,720 ft 525 m1,500 ft 460 m1,390 ft 425 m1,180 ft 360 m960 ft 290 m850 ft 260 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Rush Township, Schuylkill County sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,070–1,280 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,720 ft 525 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rush Township, Schuylkill County spans about 870 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,720 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the middle of Rush Township, Schuylkill County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,501 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.2 sq mi + 1.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 151 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8321° N, 75.9898° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 4
- 18214 18240 18245 18252
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kline Township1,750 ft
- McAdoo1,750 ft
- Kelayres1,750 ft
- Delano Township1,660 ft
- Delano1,660 ft
- Grier City1,280 ft
- Park Crest1,200 ft
- Rush Township, Schuylkill County1,160 ft
- Hometown1,130 ft
- Coaldale1,050 ft
- Tamaqua870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,197th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County26th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Locust Mountain, Schuylkill County1,630 ft
- Nesquehoning Mountain1,580 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).
- 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, 850 ft at 40.8118° N, 75.9762° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.