Thompson Township, Susquehanna County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,090 ft 635 m1,870 ft 570 m1,770 ft 540 m1,550 ft 475 m1,330 ft 405 m1,230 ft 375 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
Thompson Township, Susquehanna County sits at about 1,880 ft (575 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,880 ft 575 m
most residents: 1,550–2,030 ft
Lowest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,090 ft 635 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,760 ft 535 m
all land inside township boundaries
Thompson Township, Susquehanna County spans about 860 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 | 1,880 ft575 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,760 ft535 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.5 mi west to east through the middle of Thompson Township, Susquehanna County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 429 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.9 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 20 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8698° N, 75.5249° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 18462 18465 18847
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ararat Township1,940 ft
- Thompson Township, Susquehanna County1,880 ft
- Preston Township1,820 ft
- Starrucca1,710 ft
- Thompson1,670 ft
- Jackson Township, Susquehanna County1,630 ft
- Lakeside1,490 ft
- Harmony Township, Susquehanna County1,470 ft
- Lanesboro1,060 ft
- Susquehanna Depot1,040 ft
- Borough of Oakland1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania136th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Susquehanna County2nd highest of 46
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Slide Mountain4,180 ft
- Bearpen Mountain3,590 ft
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Mount Don Bosco2,290 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.