Forest Hills, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,260 ft 385 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m1,020 ft 310 m920 ft 280 m870 ft 265 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
Forest Hills sits at about 1,110 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,110 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,000–1,210 ft
Lowest
870 ft 265 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,260 ft 385 m
on the north side
Average
1,110 ft 340 m
all land inside borough limits
Forest Hills spans about 390 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 | 1,110 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forest Hills | 960 ft295 m |
| Airport (AGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.7 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft340 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 6,186 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 3,953 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4198° N, 79.8500° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Allegheny County (AGC) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15221
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Churchill1,140 ft
- Braddock Hills1,120 ft
- Forest Hills1,110 ft
- Wilkins Township1,060 ft
- Chalfant1,050 ft
- North Braddock990 ft
- East Pittsburgh930 ft
- Swissvale930 ft
- Turtle Creek880 ft
- Rankin860 ft
- Braddock800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,368th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County40th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 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.