Bessemer, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,180 ft 360 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m1,060 ft 325 m1,040 ft 320 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
Bessemer sits at about 1,100 ft (335 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,100 ft 335 m
most residents: 1,060–1,120 ft
Lowest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the east side
Highest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the south side
Average
1,100 ft 335 m
all land inside borough limits
Bessemer spans about 190 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 | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bessemer | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Airport (UCP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi northeast of the borough limits | 1,072 ft327 m |
| Average of all land | 1,100 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,043 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 631 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9748° N, 80.4937° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- New Castle Municipal (UCP) 1,072 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16112
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- New Middletown, OH1,220 ft
- Springfield Township, Mahoning County, OH1,180 ft
- S.N.P.J.1,150 ft
- Hillsville1,140 ft
- Petersburg, OH1,120 ft
- Bessemer1,100 ft
- North Beaver Township1,070 ft
- Mount Jackson1,050 ft
- Mahoning Township, Lawrence County1,040 ft
- Lowellville, OH850 ft
- Edinburg790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,407th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lawrence County12th highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fletcher Hill1,330 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 ft
- Bird Hill1,180 ft
- High Hill1,180 ft
- Stony Hill, Mercer County1,160 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. All public domain.