Summit Hill, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,430 ft 435 m1,340 ft 410 m1,160 ft 355 m980 ft 300 m890 ft 270 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Summit Hill sits at about 1,510 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,510 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,300–1,520 ft
Lowest
890 ft 270 m
on the east side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on Pisgah Mountain
Average
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside borough limits
Summit Hill spans about 720 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 | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on Pisgah Mountain | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 890 ft270 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Summit Hill | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Airport (22N) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.2 mi east of the borough limits | 534 ft163 m |
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,135 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.7 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 361 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8248° N, 75.8710° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jake Arner Memorial (22N) 534 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 18232 18250
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beaver Meadows1,580 ft
- Summit Hill1,510 ft
- Packer Township1,250 ft
- Rush Township, Schuylkill County1,160 ft
- Lansford1,130 ft
- Hometown1,130 ft
- Coaldale1,050 ft
- West Penn Township880 ft
- Tamaqua870 ft
- Nesquehoning860 ft
- Mahoning Township, Carbon County760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania496th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Carbon County9th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Pisgah Mountain1,610 ft
- Indian Mountain1,440 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.