Shamokin Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,500 ft 455 m1,250 ft 380 m1,120 ft 340 m870 ft 265 m620 ft 190 m490 ft 150 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
Shamokin Township sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 610–1,000 ft
Lowest
490 ft 150 m
on the north side
Highest
1,500 ft 455 m
on the south side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shamokin Township spans about 1,010 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,500 ft455 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (N79) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi east of the township boundaries | 881 ft269 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Shamokin Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,404 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 78 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8465° N, 76.6389° 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 4
- 17801 17821 17860 17872
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Coal Township860 ft
- Rush Township, Northumberland County840 ft
- Edgewood, Northumberland County830 ft
- Trevorton830 ft
- Zerbe Township830 ft
- Shamokin Township780 ft
- Tharptown (Uniontown)660 ft
- Ralpho Township660 ft
- Rockefeller Township650 ft
- Borough of Snydertown630 ft
- Elysburg620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,172nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northumberland County19th 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
- Shamokin Hill1,180 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.