Union Township, Luzerne County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,540 ft 470 m1,280 ft 390 m1,150 ft 350 m890 ft 275 m640 ft 195 m510 ft 155 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Union Township, Luzerne County sits at about 1,000 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,000 ft 305 m
most residents: 870–1,220 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,540 ft 470 m
on Shickshinny Mountain
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Luzerne County spans about 1,030 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 | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Shickshinny Mountain | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 510 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Luzerne County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,071 2024 est.
- Land area
- 19.8 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 105 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2034° N, 76.1664° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 18621 18655
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ross Township, Luzerne County1,270 ft
- Fairmount Township1,250 ft
- Silkworth1,220 ft
- Hunlock Township1,110 ft
- Union Township, Luzerne County1,000 ft
- Huntington Township, Luzerne County960 ft
- Glen Lyon730 ft
- Conyngham Township720 ft
- Newport Township710 ft
- Shickshinny650 ft
- Mocanaqua550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,720th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County49th highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Shickshinny Mountain1,540 ft
- Little Wilkes-Barre Mountain1,530 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.