Clairton, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,040 ft 320 m990 ft 300 m880 ft 270 m770 ft 235 m720 ft 220 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Clairton sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 830–1,040 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the southwest side
Average
880 ft 265 m
all land inside borough limits
Clairton spans about 430 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Clairton | 910 ft275 m |
| Airport (AGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.9 mi northwest of the borough limits | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City and borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,945 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.8 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,147 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2923° N, 79.8817° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Allegheny County (AGC) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15025
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lincoln1,160 ft
- Elizabeth Township1,080 ft
- Port Vue1,060 ft
- Jefferson Hills1,050 ft
- Clairton940 ft
- Liberty910 ft
- Blaine Hill910 ft
- Versailles850 ft
- Elizabeth820 ft
- Glassport810 ft
- West Elizabeth760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,862nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County99th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.