Sugarloaf Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,820 ft 555 m1,540 ft 470 m1,400 ft 425 m1,120 ft 340 m830 ft 255 m690 ft 210 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
Sugarloaf Township sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 930–1,610 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the west side
Highest
1,820 ft 555 m
on the north side
Average
1,140 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sugarloaf Township spans about 1,130 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 690 ft210 m |
| Airport (HZL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,603 ft489 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the middle of Sugarloaf Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,048 2024 est.
- Land area
- 22.4 sq mi
- Density
- 181 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9982° N, 76.0701° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Hazleton Regional (HZL) 1,603 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 18202 18222 18249
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Hazleton1,680 ft
- Pardeesville1,680 ft
- Lattimer1,650 ft
- Harleigh1,650 ft
- Hazle Township1,630 ft
- Weston1,160 ft
- Butler Township, Luzerne County1,120 ft
- Sugarloaf Township1,070 ft
- Black Creek Township1,070 ft
- Hollenback Township1,010 ft
- Conyngham990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,520th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County45th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Butler Mountain1,720 ft
- Sugarloaf Mountain, Luzerne County1,680 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.