West Falls, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
760 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m680 ft 210 m630 ft 195 m580 ft 180 m560 ft 170 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
West Falls sits at about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
610 ft 185 m
most residents: 580–650 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
760 ft 230 m
at the foot of the Endless Mountains
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
West Falls spans about 200 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 | 610 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Endless Mountains | 760 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Falls | 580 ft175 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.8 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
| Nearest peak Miller Mountain, 4.7 mi west of the CDP boundary | 2,200 ft670 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 337 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 313 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4606° N, 75.8563° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18615
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Newton Township1,300 ft
- Ransom Township1,290 ft
- West Abington Township1,160 ft
- Northmoreland Township1,130 ft
- Overfield Township1,110 ft
- Exeter Township, Luzerne County1,070 ft
- Lake Winola1,050 ft
- Falls Township, Wyoming County970 ft
- Upper Exeter780 ft
- Exeter Township, Wyoming County650 ft
- West Falls610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,571st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Wyoming Countylowest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Post Hill1,480 ft
- Greenwood Hill1,400 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- West Falls is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.