Drifting, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,650 ft 505 m1,610 ft 490 m1,590 ft 485 m1,550 ft 470 m1,510 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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 CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Drifting sits at about 1,610 ft (490 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

1,610 ft 490 m

few residents

Lowest

1,490 ft 455 m

on the west side

Highest

1,650 ft 505 m

on the southwest side

Average

1,600 ft 485 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Drifting spans about 160 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	1,610 ft490 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side	1,650 ft505 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side	1,490 ft455 m
Town center USGS map point for Drifting	1,610 ft490 m
Average of all land	1,600 ft485 m

Elevation profile, west to east

0.6 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States
Population: 70 2020 Census
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 129 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.0242° N, 78.1083° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Appalachian Plateaus
Drains to: West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Kylertown1,650 ft
Drifting1,610 ft
Allport1,600 ft
Grassflat1,570 ft
Lanse1,550 ft
Cooper Township1,530 ft
Moshannon1,520 ft
Pine Glen1,520 ft
Burnside Township, Centre County1,520 ft
Winburne1,490 ft
Casanova1,410 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Pennsylvania363rd highest of 3,545
Towns in Clearfield County23rd highest of 74

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Brush Mountain2,580 ft
Loop Mountain2,500 ft
Rays Hill2,440 ft
Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
The Winehead2,363 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
Drifting is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.