Bell Township, Jefferson County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,730 ft 525 m1,600 ft 490 m1,540 ft 470 m1,410 ft 430 m1,290 ft 390 m1,220 ft 375 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, Jefferson County sits at about 1,450 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,450 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,310–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,220 ft 375 m
on the west side
Highest
1,730 ft 525 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,450 ft 440 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bell Township, Jefferson County spans about 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 | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,730 ft525 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,220 ft375 m |
| Airport (N35) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,445 ft440 m |
| Average of all land | 1,450 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.9 mi west to east through the middle of Bell Township, Jefferson County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,963 2024 est.
- Land area
- 18.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 106 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9528° N, 78.9349° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mahoning Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Punxsutawney Municipal (N35) 1,445 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 15767 15772
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Banks Township, Indiana County1,820 ft
- Gaskill Township1,710 ft
- McCalmont Township1,610 ft
- Perry Township, Jefferson County1,520 ft
- Canoe Township1,510 ft
- Henderson Township1,470 ft
- Bell Township, Jefferson County1,450 ft
- Young Township, Jefferson County1,430 ft
- Rossiter1,370 ft
- Big Run1,300 ft
- Punxsutawney1,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania572nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Jefferson County23rd highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Doty Roundtop1,910 ft
- Gobblers Knob, Jefferson County1,610 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.