Towanda, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,110 ft 340 m1,040 ft 315 m910 ft 275 m770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 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
Towanda sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 730–900 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
near the middle
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the southwest side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside borough limits
Towanda spans about 550 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, near the middle | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Towanda | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (N27) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi south of the borough limits | 730 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,774 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 2,442 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7676° N, 76.4427° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Bradford County (N27) 730 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18848
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ulster Township1,230 ft
- Burlington Township1,230 ft
- Monroe Township, Bradford County1,180 ft
- Wysox Township1,080 ft
- Towanda Township1,060 ft
- Standing Stone Township880 ft
- North Towanda Township880 ft
- North Towanda860 ft
- Towanda810 ft
- Monroe760 ft
- Ulster750 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,101st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Bradford County50th highest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Connecticut Hill2,100 ft
- Tip Top1,490 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.