Fairchance, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 350 m1,120 ft 340 m1,100 ft 335 m1,060 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m1,010 ft 305 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Fairchance sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 1,020–1,110 ft
Lowest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,160 ft 350 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,070 ft 325 m
all land inside borough limits
Fairchance spans about 150 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,160 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairchance | 1,100 ft335 m |
| Airport (MGW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,244 ft379 m |
| Average of all land | 1,070 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.9 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,816 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,530 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8248° N, 79.7545° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Morgantown Municipal/Walter L Bill Hart Field (MGW) 1,244 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15436
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Uniontown1,160 ft
- Georges Township1,150 ft
- Hopwood1,140 ft
- Leith-Hatfield1,130 ft
- South Union Township1,130 ft
- Nicholson Township1,090 ft
- Fairchance1,070 ft
- South Uniontown1,070 ft
- Uniontown1,050 ft
- Oliver1,040 ft
- Smithfield1,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,507th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County34th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Mountain2,800 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Devies Mountain2,750 ft
- Pine Knob, Fayette County2,140 ft
- Goodwin Knob1,200 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.