Forestville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,190 ft 365 m1,120 ft 340 m980 ft 300 m840 ft 255 m760 ft 235 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Forestville sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 880–1,020 ft
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
at the foot of the Broad Mountain
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Forestville spans about 570 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, at the foot of the Broad Mountain | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 760 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Forestville | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (ZER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.4 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,730 ft527 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 399 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 440 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6923° N, 76.3013° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Schuylkill County/Joe Zerbey (ZER) 1,730 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 17901
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Foster Township, Schuylkill County1,380 ft
- Buck Run1,320 ft
- Cass Township1,010 ft
- Heckscherville970 ft
- Reilly Township960 ft
- Forestville940 ft
- Branch Township860 ft
- Branchdale830 ft
- Llewellyn750 ft
- Minersville740 ft
- Marlin740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,865th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County49th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Ashland Mountain1,740 ft
- Mine Hill, Schuylkill County1,460 ft
- Peaked Mountain1,410 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, 760 ft at 40.6849° N, 76.2946° 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.
- Forestville 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.