Highland Township, Elk County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,090 ft 635 m1,920 ft 585 m1,830 ft 560 m1,660 ft 505 m1,490 ft 455 m1,400 ft 430 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
Highland Township, Elk County sits at about 1,950 ft (595 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,950 ft 595 m
most residents: 1,840–2,030 ft
Lowest
1,400 ft 430 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,090 ft 635 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,780 ft 545 m
all land inside township boundaries
Highland Township, Elk County spans about 690 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 | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,090 ft635 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,400 ft430 m |
| Average of all land | 1,780 ft545 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of Highland Township, Elk County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Elk County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 388 2024 est.
- Land area
- 86.8 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4.5 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5833° N, 78.8483° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Clarion River → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 15853 16734 16735
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wetmore Township1,980 ft
- Kane1,980 ft
- James City1,950 ft
- Highland Township, Elk County1,950 ft
- Hamilton Township, McKean County1,810 ft
- Howe Township, Forest County1,760 ft
- Jones Township1,750 ft
- Ridgway Township1,680 ft
- Wilcox1,550 ft
- Johnsonburg1,520 ft
- Sheffield Township1,370 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania106th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Elk County2nd highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Devils Den, Elk County2,170 ft
- Clarion Summit2,100 ft
- Bull Hill, Warren County2,010 ft
- Dill Hill1,930 ft
- Bald Hill, Forest County1,780 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.