Wilkes-Barre Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,070 ft 325 m950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m780 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 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
Wilkes-Barre Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 640–820 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the west side
Highest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
740 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Wilkes-Barre Township spans about 470 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (AVP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.6 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 962 ft293 m |
| Average of all land | 740 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.4 mi west to east through the middle of Wilkes-Barre Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,221 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.0 sq mi
- Density
- 1,074 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2281° N, 75.8684° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International (AVP) 962 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 18702
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Laurel Run1,310 ft
- Georgetown750 ft
- Wilkes-Barre Township710 ft
- Larksville670 ft
- Plains Township640 ft
- Ashley640 ft
- Plains630 ft
- Hanover Township620 ft
- Wilkes-Barre590 ft
- Forty Fort550 ft
- Kingston540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,334th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Luzerne County71st highest of 102
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- North Knob2,692 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Haystack Mountain1,860 ft
- Wilkes-Barre Mountain1,650 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 600 ft at 41.2232° N, 75.8890° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.