Big Run, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,620 ft 495 m1,530 ft 465 m1,490 ft 455 m1,400 ft 425 m1,310 ft 400 m1,270 ft 385 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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 Run sits at about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,300 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,280–1,350 ft
Lowest
1,270 ft 385 m
on the west side
Highest
1,620 ft 495 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,340 ft 405 m
all land inside borough limits
Big Run spans about 350 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 | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 1,620 ft495 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Big Run | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Airport (DUJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi north of the borough limits | 1,817 ft554 m |
| Average of all land | 1,340 ft405 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 622 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 900 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9670° N, 78.8784° 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
- Dubois Regional (DUJ) 1,817 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15715
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gaskill Township1,710 ft
- McCalmont Township1,610 ft
- Troutville1,530 ft
- Canoe Township1,510 ft
- Henderson Township1,470 ft
- Bell Township, Jefferson County1,450 ft
- Young Township, Jefferson County1,430 ft
- Sykesville1,410 ft
- Rossiter1,370 ft
- Big Run1,300 ft
- Punxsutawney1,280 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania840th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Jefferson County31st highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Coal Hill, Clearfield County2,060 ft
- Gobblers Knob, Jefferson County1,610 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.