Hempfield Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,520 ft 465 m1,370 ft 415 m1,290 ft 395 m1,140 ft 345 m990 ft 300 m910 ft 280 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Hempfield Township sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,050–1,280 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,520 ft 465 m
on the north side
Average
1,150 ft 350 m
all land inside township boundaries
Hempfield Township spans about 610 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 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,520 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (LBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,199 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,150 ft350 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
13 mi south to north through the middle of Hempfield Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 41,579 2024 est.
- Land area
- 76.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 542 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2937° N, 79.5741° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Arnold Palmer Regional (LBE) 1,199 ft
- ZIP codes 16
- 15601 15611 15616 15619 15625 15633 15634 15635 15639 15642 15644 15662 15663 15672 15679 15691
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Adamsburg1,210 ft
- Hempfield Township1,160 ft
- Grapeville1,140 ft
- Greensburg1,120 ft
- Jeannette1,110 ft
- Southwest Greensburg1,080 ft
- South Greensburg1,050 ft
- New Stanton1,050 ft
- Arona1,040 ft
- Youngwood1,010 ft
- Penn1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,185th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County20th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 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.