Boston, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m960 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m840 ft 255 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Boston sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 750–840 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the south side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Boston 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Boston | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (AGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 549 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,669 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3120° N, 79.8231° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Allegheny County (AGC) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15135
⤓ Download this map
WebP, 1200 × 900. Free to use: credit “ElevationOf.com” with a link to this page.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lincoln1,160 ft
- Elizabeth Township1,080 ft
- Port Vue1,060 ft
- White Oak1,000 ft
- Greenock930 ft
- Liberty910 ft
- Versailles850 ft
- South Versailles Township770 ft
- Coulter770 ft
- Boston770 ft
- Buena Vista760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,190th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County141st highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Boston is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.