Foster Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,370 ft 720 m2,130 ft 650 m2,000 ft 610 m1,760 ft 535 m1,520 ft 465 m1,400 ft 425 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Foster Township sits at about 1,790 ft (545 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,790 ft 545 m
most residents: 1,420–2,200 ft
Lowest
1,400 ft 425 m
on the north side
Highest
2,370 ft 720 m
on the west side
Average
1,930 ft 590 m
all land inside township boundaries
Foster Township spans about 970 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 | 1,790 ft545 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,400 ft425 m |
| Airport (BFD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 2,143 ft653 m |
| Average of all land | 1,930 ft590 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
13 mi west to east through the middle of Foster Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,897 2024 est.
- Land area
- 46.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 84 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9697° N, 78.6100° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bradford Regional (BFD) 2,143 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 16701 16727 16744
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rew2,200 ft
- Otto Township1,820 ft
- Foster Township1,790 ft
- Bradford Township1,580 ft
- Lewis Run1,560 ft
- Carrollton, NY1,500 ft
- Foster Brook1,490 ft
- University of Pittsburgh Bradford1,480 ft
- Bradford1,460 ft
- Allegany, NY1,440 ft
- Limestone, NY1,430 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania194th highest of 3,545
- Towns in McKean County14th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blacksnake Mountain2,350 ft
- Dana Heights2,230 ft
- Columbia Hill, McKean County2,230 ft
- Ormsbys Summit2,230 ft
- Big Shanty Hill2,200 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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.