Bedford Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,550 ft 775 m2,170 ft 660 m1,980 ft 605 m1,600 ft 490 m1,230 ft 375 m1,040 ft 315 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Bedford Township sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,080–1,530 ft
Lowest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,550 ft 775 m
on the north side
Average
1,370 ft 415 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bedford Township spans about 1,510 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 2,550 ft775 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Airport (HMZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,162 ft354 m |
| Average of all land | 1,370 ft415 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Bedford Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,099 2024 est.
- Land area
- 68.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 75 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0345° N, 78.5154° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Raystown Branch Juniata River → Juniata River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Bedford County (HMZ) 1,162 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15522
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Napier Township1,430 ft
- Harrison Township, Bedford County1,400 ft
- Colerain Township, Bedford County1,400 ft
- Schellsburg1,240 ft
- Bedford Township1,210 ft
- East St. Clair Township1,200 ft
- Snake Spring Township1,190 ft
- Manns Choice1,150 ft
- Bedford1,090 ft
- Earlston1,080 ft
- Everett1,060 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,066th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Bedford County25th highest of 43
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.