Carnegie, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,060 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m900 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 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
Carnegie sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 780–1,040 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the northwest side
Average
890 ft 270 m
all land inside borough limits
Carnegie spans about 420 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Carnegie | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.7 mi northwest of the borough limits | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 7,855 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 4,846 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4087° N, 80.0834° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15106
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Green Tree1,120 ft
- Thornburg1,070 ft
- Pennsbury Village1,060 ft
- Collier Township1,060 ft
- Rosslyn Farms1,050 ft
- Scott Township1,040 ft
- Crafton930 ft
- Ingram870 ft
- Carnegie850 ft
- Glendale850 ft
- Heidelberg820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,029th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County118th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hannas Knob1,400 ft
- Pollocks Knob1,350 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.