Bellefonte, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m760 ft 235 m720 ft 220 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bellefonte sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 790–930 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside borough limits
Bellefonte spans about 330 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bellefonte | 780 ft240 m |
| Airport (UNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.0 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,231 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,986 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 3,243 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9134° N, 77.7783° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- State College Regional (UNV) 1,231 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16823
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Benner Township1,080 ft
- Zion1,050 ft
- Spring Township, Centre County1,020 ft
- Pleasant Gap1,010 ft
- Peru990 ft
- Boggs Township960 ft
- Moose Run920 ft
- Runville910 ft
- Bellefonte870 ft
- Milesburg700 ft
- Holters Crossing680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,991st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County65th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.