Etna, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 325 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m850 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m720 ft 220 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
Etna sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 740–900 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the south side
Highest
1,060 ft 325 m
on the south side
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside borough limits
Etna 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Etna | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi west of the borough limits | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,304 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,489 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5042° N, 79.9489° 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
- 15223
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Reserve Township1,160 ft
- Ross Township1,150 ft
- Allison Park1,110 ft
- Fox Chapel1,100 ft
- Glenshaw1,080 ft
- Shaler Township1,030 ft
- O'Hara Township1,010 ft
- Millvale790 ft
- Etna790 ft
- Aspinwall760 ft
- Sharpsburg740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,162nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County137th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 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, 720 ft at 40.4913° N, 79.9499° 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.