Falls Creek, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,560 ft 475 m1,510 ft 460 m1,490 ft 455 m1,450 ft 440 m1,400 ft 430 m1,380 ft 420 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
Falls Creek sits at about 1,450 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,450 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,420–1,500 ft
Lowest
1,380 ft 420 m
on the south side
Highest
1,560 ft 475 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,440 ft 440 m
all land inside borough limits
Falls Creek spans about 180 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 | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 1,380 ft420 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Falls Creek | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Airport (DUJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi northwest of the borough limits | 1,817 ft554 m |
| Average of all land | 1,440 ft440 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.3 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Jefferson and Clearfield counties, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,006 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 1,092 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1451° N, 78.8045° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dubois Regional (DUJ) 1,817 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15840
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Treasure Lake1,690 ft
- Brady Township1,680 ft
- Washington Township, Jefferson County1,660 ft
- Sandy Township1,590 ft
- Winslow Township1,570 ft
- Oklahoma, Clearfield County1,480 ft
- Sandy1,480 ft
- DuBois1,450 ft
- Falls Creek1,450 ft
- Sykesville1,410 ft
- Reynoldsville1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania577th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Jefferson County24th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Boone Mountain2,380 ft
- Coal Hill, Clearfield County2,060 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.