Allegheny Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,340 ft 410 m1,190 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m970 ft 295 m820 ft 250 m750 ft 230 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
Allegheny Township sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 980–1,250 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the west side
Highest
1,340 ft 410 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Allegheny Township spans about 590 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,340 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the middle of Allegheny Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,193 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.1 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 264 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6055° N, 79.6388° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 5
- 15068 15613 15656 15690 16229
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Allegheny Township1,120 ft
- Oklahoma1,010 ft
- West Leechburg970 ft
- Vandergrift960 ft
- Pleasant View910 ft
- Leechburg900 ft
- Kiskimere880 ft
- Apollo850 ft
- Borough of Hyde Park820 ft
- East Vandergrift800 ft
- North Vandergrift800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,326th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County30th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Watts Hill, Indiana County1,600 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Locust Knob1,260 ft
- Whiskey Hollow Hill1,250 ft
- Gault Hill1,220 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. All public domain.