Shickshinny, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m850 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m680 ft 205 m560 ft 170 m500 ft 150 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shickshinny sits at about 650 ft (200 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
650 ft 200 m
most residents: 510–710 ft
Lowest
500 ft 150 m
on the southeast side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the north edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside borough limits
Shickshinny spans about 470 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 | 650 ft200 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north edge, below higher ground just outside | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 500 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shickshinny | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 633 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,330 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1531° N, 76.1502° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 18655
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hunlock Township1,110 ft
- Slocum Township1,100 ft
- Union Township, Luzerne County1,000 ft
- Huntington Township, Luzerne County960 ft
- Wanamie770 ft
- Glen Lyon730 ft
- Conyngham Township720 ft
- Newport Township710 ft
- Shickshinny650 ft
- Salem Township, Luzerne County600 ft
- Mocanaqua550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,480th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County79th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Shickshinny Mountain1,540 ft
- Council Cup1,220 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.