Fairview, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m700 ft 215 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairview 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: 750–830 ft
Lowest
700 ft 215 m
on the northwest side
Highest
930 ft 280 m
on the south side
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Fairview spans about 230 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 the CDP boundary, on the south side | 930 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 700 ft215 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairview | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (ERI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 732 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,850 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.5 sq mi
- Density
- 804 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0314° N, 80.2553° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Erie International/Tom Ridge Field (ERI) 732 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16415
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township, Erie County1,260 ft
- McKean Township1,080 ft
- McKean1,020 ft
- Platea890 ft
- Millcreek Township880 ft
- Fairview790 ft
- Girard Township790 ft
- Fairview Township, Erie County770 ft
- Girard770 ft
- Lake City710 ft
- Avonia660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,140th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Erie County31st highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gibson Hill1,550 ft
- Mount Pleasant1,510 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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 42.0374° N, 80.2671° 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.
- Fairview is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.