Big Beaver, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 390 m1,150 ft 350 m1,080 ft 330 m940 ft 290 m810 ft 245 m740 ft 225 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
Big Beaver sits at about 1,140 ft (345 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 345 m
most residents: 950–1,210 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,290 ft 390 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside borough limits
Big Beaver spans about 550 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 | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,290 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Beaver | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Airport (BVI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.6 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,253 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,832 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 103 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8245° N, 80.3628° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Beaver County (BVI) 1,253 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 15010 16115 16141 16157
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chippewa Township1,180 ft
- North Sewickley Township1,170 ft
- White Township, Beaver County1,150 ft
- Big Beaver1,140 ft
- West Mayfield1,090 ft
- Homewood1,010 ft
- New Galilee970 ft
- New Beaver960 ft
- Koppel920 ft
- Darlington910 ft
- Wampum780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,273rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Beaver County8th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fletcher Hill1,330 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lawrence County1,330 ft
- Steffens Hill1,290 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 ft
- Booth Hill1,180 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.