Sheppton, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,710 ft 520 m1,670 ft 510 m1,650 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,540 ft 470 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sheppton sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,640 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,640–1,650 ft
Lowest
1,540 ft 470 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,710 ft 520 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,650 ft 505 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sheppton spans about 170 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 | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sheppton | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Airport (HZL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 1,603 ft489 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 448 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,561 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8976° N, 76.1177° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Catawissa Creek → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hazleton Regional (HZL) 1,603 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18248
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oneida1,690 ft
- Delano Township1,660 ft
- Delano1,660 ft
- East Union Township1,650 ft
- Sheppton1,640 ft
- Park Place1,610 ft
- Brandonville1,190 ft
- Weston1,160 ft
- Nuremberg1,140 ft
- North Union Township, Schuylkill County1,130 ft
- Black Creek Township1,070 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania323rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County9th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Blue Head1,860 ft
- Green Mountain, Schuylkill County1,860 ft
- Round Head1,840 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Sheppton is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.