Dawson, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,020 ft 310 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m830 ft 255 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
Dawson 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: 850–970 ft
Lowest
830 ft 255 m
on the west side
Highest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the northwest side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside borough limits
Dawson spans about 190 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 | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 830 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Dawson | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (VVS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi south of the borough limits | 1,264 ft385 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 338 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,954 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0470° N, 79.6545° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Youghiogheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Joseph A Hardy Connellsville (VVS) 1,264 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15428
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township, Fayette County1,170 ft
- Lower Tyrone Township1,130 ft
- Dunbar Township1,130 ft
- Connellsville Township1,110 ft
- Upper Tyrone Township1,090 ft
- Scottdale1,080 ft
- Everson1,070 ft
- South Connellsville1,000 ft
- Vanderbilt980 ft
- Connellsville960 ft
- Dawson850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,023rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County64th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Fort Hill, Fayette County1,570 ft
- Roundtop, Fayette County1,410 ft
- River Hills1,410 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.