Forest County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,960 ft 595 m1,720 ft 525 m1,610 ft 490 m1,380 ft 420 m1,150 ft 350 m1,030 ft 315 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Forest County averages about 1,590 ft (485 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 1,030 ft on the west side to 1,960 ft on the east side.

Average elevation

1,590 ft 485 m

all land inside the county

Highest

1,960 ft 595 m

on the east side

Lowest

1,030 ft 315 m

on the west side

Forest County spans about 930 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	1,590 ft485 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the east side	1,960 ft595 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the west side	1,030 ft315 m

Elevation profile, west to east

29 mi west to east through Jenks Township.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Pennsylvania, United States
Population: 6,601 2024 est.
Land area: 427.3 sq mi + 3.2 sq mi water
Density: 15 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Appalachian Plateaus
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Elk County1,780 ft
Warren County1,640 ft
Forest County1,590 ft
Jefferson County1,580 ft
Clarion County1,420 ft
Venango County1,400 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Pennsylvania11th highest of 66
Counties in the United States791st highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Bald Hill, Forest County1,780 ft
Fools Knob1,730 ft
Maze Hill1,700 ft
Preacher Hill1,700 ft
Butcherknife Hill1,670 ft

All 10 towns in Forest County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.