Harris Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,420 ft 735 m2,080 ft 635 m1,910 ft 580 m1,570 ft 475 m1,230 ft 375 m1,050 ft 320 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
Harris Township sits at about 1,160 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,120–1,490 ft
Lowest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,420 ft 735 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,600 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Harris Township spans about 1,370 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 | 1,160 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,420 ft735 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Airport (UNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.2 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 1,231 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,600 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.2 mi south to north through the middle of Harris Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,984 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.5 sq mi
- Density
- 190 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7780° N, 77.7811° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- State College Regional (UNV) 1,231 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 16801 16827 16828
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pine Grove Mills1,290 ft
- Ferguson Township1,200 ft
- Toftrees1,170 ft
- Harris Township1,160 ft
- Boalsburg1,160 ft
- State College1,150 ft
- College Township1,100 ft
- Lemont1,080 ft
- Benner Township1,080 ft
- Houserville1,030 ft
- Peru990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,206th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County37th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.