Dale, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,400 ft 425 m1,360 ft 415 m1,290 ft 395 m1,230 ft 375 m1,190 ft 365 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
Dale sits at about 1,270 ft (385 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,270 ft 385 m
most residents: 1,220–1,320 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
at the foot of the Laurel Hill
Average
1,280 ft 390 m
all land inside borough limits
Dale spans about 280 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 | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, at the foot of the Laurel Hill | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dale | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi east of the borough limits | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 1,280 ft390 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 960 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 5,486 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3129° N, 78.9042° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conemaugh River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15902
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Daisytown1,780 ft
- Belmont1,770 ft
- Stonycreek Township1,670 ft
- Elim1,670 ft
- Oakland, Cambria County1,660 ft
- Southmont1,600 ft
- Lorain1,480 ft
- Ferndale1,300 ft
- Dale1,270 ft
- Johnstown1,230 ft
- Riverside, Cambria County1,200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania913th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County87th highest of 89
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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.