Ernest, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,360 ft 415 m1,290 ft 395 m1,250 ft 380 m1,180 ft 360 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 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
Ernest sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,110–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,070 ft 325 m
on the west side
Highest
1,360 ft 415 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,170 ft 360 m
all land inside borough limits
Ernest spans about 290 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Ernest | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Airport (IDI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi southeast of the borough limits | 1,419 ft433 m |
| Average of all land | 1,170 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 420 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,826 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6781° N, 79.1617° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Crooked Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Indiana County/Jimmy Stewart Field (IDI) 1,419 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15739
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Chevy Chase Heights1,390 ft
- White Township1,350 ft
- Washington Township, Indiana County1,290 ft
- Indiana1,280 ft
- Armstrong Township1,260 ft
- Atwood1,250 ft
- Clymer1,250 ft
- Sagamore1,180 ft
- Ernest1,160 ft
- Creekside1,050 ft
- Shelocta990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,198th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Indiana County36th highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Coleman Hill1,663 ft
- Kunkle Hill1,490 ft
- Vinegar Hill1,460 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.