Sunbury, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m550 ft 170 m500 ft 150 m450 ft 135 m420 ft 130 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sunbury sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 440–500 ft
Lowest
420 ft 130 m
on the southwest side
Highest
630 ft 190 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
450 ft 135 m
all land inside city limits
Sunbury spans about 210 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 420 ft130 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sunbury | 450 ft135 m |
| Airport (SEG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi southwest of the city limits | 464 ft141 m |
| Average of all land | 450 ft135 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,549 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,758 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8626° N, 76.7944° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Penn Valley (SEG) 464 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17801
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Union County670 ft
- Upper Augusta Township670 ft
- Rockefeller Township650 ft
- Winfield640 ft
- Point Township590 ft
- Monroe Township, Snyder County530 ft
- Kapp Heights520 ft
- Shamokin Dam510 ft
- Northumberland500 ft
- Hummels Wharf480 ft
- Sunbury440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania3,019th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Northumberland Countylowest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Acorn Hill590 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.