Selinsgrove, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m410 ft 125 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
Selinsgrove sits at about 450 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
450 ft 140 m
most residents: 430–490 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the south side
Highest
600 ft 180 m
on the southwest side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside borough limits
Selinsgrove spans about 190 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 | 450 ft140 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 600 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 410 ft125 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Selinsgrove | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (SEG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.6 mi north of the borough limits | 464 ft141 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,501 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,006 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7990° N, 76.8622° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Penn Valley (SEG) 464 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17870
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lower Augusta Township750 ft
- Washington Township, Snyder County730 ft
- Kratzerville650 ft
- Penn Township, Snyder County560 ft
- Kreamer550 ft
- Monroe Township, Snyder County530 ft
- Freeburg520 ft
- Shamokin Dam510 ft
- Hummels Wharf480 ft
- Selinsgrove450 ft
- Sunbury440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,993rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Snyder Countylowest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Middle Creek Mountain1,105 ft
- White Top1,050 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.