Brownsville Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 400 m1,160 ft 355 m1,090 ft 335 m950 ft 290 m810 ft 250 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brownsville Township sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 990–1,140 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the north side
Highest
1,300 ft 400 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,010 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brownsville Township spans about 560 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,300 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 740 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 1,010 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the middle of Brownsville Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 515 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 342 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0176° N, 79.8758° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 15417
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Allison1,080 ft
- Brownsville Township1,070 ft
- Redstone Township1,050 ft
- Hiller1,020 ft
- Jefferson Township, Fayette County1,020 ft
- Rowes Run1,000 ft
- Brownsville940 ft
- Grindstone930 ft
- West Brownsville930 ft
- California910 ft
- Coal Center770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,503rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County33rd highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- River Hills1,410 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Kilndigging Hill1,290 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.