Brackenridge, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
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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
Brackenridge 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: 760–960 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the north side
Average
860 ft 260 m
all land inside borough limits
Brackenridge spans about 230 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 north side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Brackenridge | 840 ft255 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,125 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 6,092 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6081° N, 79.7412° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 15014
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Frazer Township1,100 ft
- Fawn Township, Allegheny County1,080 ft
- Lower Burrell1,020 ft
- Natrona Heights990 ft
- Harrison Township990 ft
- East Deer Township970 ft
- New Kensington940 ft
- Brackenridge870 ft
- Arnold840 ft
- Tarentum820 ft
- Natrona760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,989th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County115th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Whiskey Hollow Hill1,250 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 750 ft at 40.6043° N, 79.7374° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.