Emsworth, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m960 ft 295 m920 ft 280 m830 ft 255 m750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 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
Emsworth sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
most residents: 760–920 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside borough limits
Emsworth spans about 340 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 710 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Emsworth | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi west of the borough limits | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,426 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,264 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5101° N, 80.0945° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15202
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ben Avon Heights1,160 ft
- Ohio Township1,130 ft
- Kennedy Township1,100 ft
- Kilbuck Township1,030 ft
- Bellevue960 ft
- Avalon930 ft
- Stowe Township840 ft
- Ben Avon840 ft
- Emsworth820 ft
- Neville Township720 ft
- Glenfield720 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,078th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County128th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Knob, Beaver County1,380 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Bunker Hill, Beaver County1,240 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 700 ft at 40.5060° N, 80.0888° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.