South Centre Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
780 ft 235 m700 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m580 ft 175 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 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
South Centre Township sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 490–660 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the southwest side
Highest
780 ft 235 m
at the foot of the Little Mountain
Average
580 ft 175 m
all land inside township boundaries
South Centre Township spans about 320 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, at the foot of the Little Mountain | 780 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (N13) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 481 ft147 m |
| Average of all land | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the middle of South Centre Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,925 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.4 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 354 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0259° N, 76.3501° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Bloomsburg Municipal (N13) 481 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17815
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Main Township790 ft
- North Centre Township770 ft
- Mainville580 ft
- Scott Township, Columbia County550 ft
- Mifflin Township540 ft
- Mifflinville510 ft
- South Centre Township510 ft
- Lime Ridge500 ft
- Briar Creek490 ft
- Almedia490 ft
- Espy490 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,823rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Columbia County51st highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Turkey Hill, Columbia County940 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.