Burnside Township, Centre County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,240 ft 680 m1,850 ft 565 m1,660 ft 505 m1,270 ft 390 m890 ft 270 m700 ft 210 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Burnside Township, Centre County sits at about 1,520 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,520 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,450–1,560 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,240 ft 680 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,660 ft 505 m
all land inside township boundaries
Burnside Township, Centre County spans about 1,540 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 | 1,520 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,240 ft680 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 700 ft210 m |
| Average of all land | 1,660 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.7 mi west to east through the middle of Burnside Township, Centre County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 414 2024 est.
- Land area
- 88.9 sq mi + 0.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.7 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0893° N, 78.0542° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 16829 16845 16859
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Karthaus Township2,090 ft
- Snow Shoe1,670 ft
- Drifting1,610 ft
- Grassflat1,570 ft
- Snow Shoe Township1,530 ft
- Moshannon1,520 ft
- Pine Glen1,520 ft
- Burnside Township, Centre County1,520 ft
- Clarence1,520 ft
- Covington Township, Clearfield County1,410 ft
- Karthaus960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania481st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County7th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Bear Hill1,970 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.