Adams Township, Cambria County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,860 ft 870 m2,520 ft 770 m2,350 ft 715 m2,010 ft 615 m1,680 ft 510 m1,510 ft 460 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
Adams Township, Cambria County sits at about 2,070 ft (630 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,070 ft 630 m
most residents: 1,640–2,380 ft
Lowest
1,510 ft 460 m
on the north side
Highest
2,860 ft 870 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,260 ft 690 m
all land inside township boundaries
Adams Township, Cambria County spans about 1,350 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 | 2,070 ft630 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,510 ft460 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi west of the township boundaries | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 2,260 ft690 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.2 mi south to north through the middle of Adams Township, Cambria County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,624 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 123 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3022° N, 78.7636° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conemaugh River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
- ZIP codes 8
- 15904 15930 15934 15951 15952 15955 15956 15963
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dunlo2,230 ft
- University of Pittsburgh Johnstown2,160 ft
- Adams Township, Cambria County2,070 ft
- Salix2,060 ft
- Beaverdale2,020 ft
- Summerhill Township1,980 ft
- Croyle Township1,900 ft
- St. Michael1,750 ft
- Sidman1,620 ft
- Ehrenfeld1,550 ft
- South Fork1,540 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania63rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County13th highest of 89
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.