Bell Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,580 ft 480 m1,380 ft 420 m1,280 ft 390 m1,080 ft 330 m890 ft 270 m790 ft 240 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
Bell Township sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,000–1,310 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,580 ft 480 m
on the north side
Average
1,170 ft 355 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bell Township spans about 790 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft355 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.7 mi south to north through the middle of Bell Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,081 2024 est.
- Land area
- 21.5 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 97 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5114° N, 79.5236° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 4
- 15613 15618 15680 15681
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kiskiminetas Township1,210 ft
- Washington Township, Westmoreland County1,200 ft
- Bell Township1,200 ft
- Slickville1,180 ft
- Orchard Hills1,160 ft
- Loyalhanna Township1,150 ft
- Oklahoma1,010 ft
- Saltsburg950 ft
- Avonmore890 ft
- North Apollo890 ft
- Apollo850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,091st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County11th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Watts Hill, Indiana County1,600 ft
- Locust Knob1,260 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.