Elevation of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States of America is 171 m (561 ft) above sea level.
Wilkes-Barre's height from sea level is 171 metres, or 561 feet. GeoNames reads 172 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 160 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 234 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 391 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Rank by elevation
among the towns of Pennsylvania, and 443rd of 1,000 in United States of America.
Cross-section through Wilkes-Barre
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Wilkes-Barre; the vertical scale is the same on both.
Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.
Towns near Wilkes-Barre
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scranton | 25.7 km | NE | 227 m (745 ft) | +56 m |
Peaks and passes near Wilkes-Barre
- Pinnacle Rock, peak at 693 m (2,274 ft), 23.2 km to the NE — 522 m above the town.
- Big Pine Hill, peak at 689 m (2,260 ft), 20.6 km to the E — 518 m above the town.
- Kocher Mountain, peak at 689 m (2,260 ft), 23.3 km to the NW — 518 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Wilkes-Barre is
Latitude 41.2459149, longitude -75.8813075. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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About this reading
The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Wilkes-Barre's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 172 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.