Castle Shannon, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,210 ft 370 m1,170 ft 355 m1,090 ft 335 m1,010 ft 310 m970 ft 295 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Castle Shannon sits at about 1,150 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,150 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,070–1,210 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,120 ft 340 m
all land inside borough limits
Castle Shannon spans about 320 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 | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Castle Shannon | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northwest of the borough limits | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 1,120 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,094 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 5,065 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3648° N, 80.0223° 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
- 15234
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Whitehall1,190 ft
- Dormont1,190 ft
- Brentwood1,180 ft
- Bethel Park1,170 ft
- Mount Lebanon1,160 ft
- Baldwin Township1,160 ft
- Castle Shannon1,150 ft
- Baldwin1,130 ft
- Green Tree1,120 ft
- Upper St. Clair Township1,100 ft
- Scott Township1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,215th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County20th 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.