Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,860 ft 870 m2,390 ft 730 m2,150 ft 655 m1,680 ft 510 m1,200 ft 365 m960 ft 295 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County sits at about 1,410 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,410 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,240–1,730 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,860 ft 870 m
on Irwin Hill
Average
1,650 ft 505 m
all land inside township boundaries
Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County spans about 1,900 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 | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Irwin Hill | 2,860 ft870 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Airport (LBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,199 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,650 ft505 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.5 mi west to east through the middle of Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,026 2024 est.
- Land area
- 61.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 33 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3322° N, 79.1444° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Arnold Palmer Regional (LBE) 1,199 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 15658 15923 15944
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Wheatfield Township1,590 ft
- Fairfield Township, Westmoreland County1,410 ft
- Laurel Mountain1,400 ft
- Ligonier Township1,390 ft
- Derry1,200 ft
- Ligonier1,190 ft
- St. Clair Township1,190 ft
- Millwood1,110 ft
- New Florence1,080 ft
- Robinson1,060 ft
- Bolivar1,060 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania638th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County4th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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.