German Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,210 ft 365 m1,130 ft 345 m980 ft 300 m840 ft 255 m760 ft 235 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
German Township sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 980–1,230 ft
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the east side
Average
1,110 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
German Township spans about 590 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 760 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 1,110 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.6 mi west to east through the middle of German Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,487 2024 est.
- Land area
- 33.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 134 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8868° N, 79.8664° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 9
- 15401 15410 15443 15454 15458 15461 15468 15476 15478
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Menallen Township1,150 ft
- German Township1,120 ft
- Nicholson Township1,090 ft
- Buffington1,080 ft
- Nemacolin1,070 ft
- New Salem, Fayette County1,060 ft
- Edenborn1,040 ft
- Republic1,020 ft
- Masontown980 ft
- Fairdale980 ft
- Ronco970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,362nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County25th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Turkey Knob, Greene County1,480 ft
- Sunshine Hill1,200 ft
- Goodwin Knob1,200 ft
- Locks Hill1,190 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.