Arnold City, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,100 ft 335 m1,030 ft 315 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 260 m820 ft 250 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Arnold City sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 910–970 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,100 ft 335 m
on the east side
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Arnold City spans about 280 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 820 ft250 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Arnold City | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (FWQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.9 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,228 ft374 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 462 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 963 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1165° N, 79.8250° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rostraver (FWQ) 1,228 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15012
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Long Branch1,190 ft
- Washington Township, Fayette County940 ft
- Lynnwood-Pricedale940 ft
- Fairhope930 ft
- Arnold City920 ft
- North Belle Vernon920 ft
- Belle Vernon870 ft
- Fayette City850 ft
- Dunlevy790 ft
- Naomi770 ft
- Borough of Allenport770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,891st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County60th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Layton Hill1,570 ft
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Kilndigging Hill1,290 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 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.
- Arnold City 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.