Cowanshannock Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,430 ft 435 m1,370 ft 420 m1,250 ft 380 m1,130 ft 345 m1,070 ft 325 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Cowanshannock Township sits at about 1,290 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,290 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,140–1,400 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the west side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cowanshannock Township spans about 490 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 | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.2 mi south to north through the middle of Cowanshannock Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,654 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.7 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7960° N, 79.2965° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 6
- 16201 16222 16244 16249 16250 16263
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wayne Township, Armstrong County1,450 ft
- Dayton1,360 ft
- Cowanshannock Township1,290 ft
- Washington Township, Indiana County1,290 ft
- Valley Township, Armstrong County1,270 ft
- Plumcreek Township1,270 ft
- Atwood1,250 ft
- Plumville1,190 ft
- Sagamore1,180 ft
- Rural Valley1,140 ft
- Yatesboro1,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania857th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Armstrong County12th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Russell Hill, Indiana County1,554 ft
- Kunkle Hill1,490 ft
- Gault Hill1,220 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.