Howe Township, Forest County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,950 ft 595 m1,760 ft 535 m1,660 ft 505 m1,470 ft 450 m1,280 ft 390 m1,190 ft 360 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
Howe Township, Forest County sits at about 1,760 ft (540 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,760 ft 540 m
most residents: 1,410–1,850 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 360 m
on the west side
Highest
1,950 ft 595 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,680 ft 515 m
all land inside township boundaries
Howe Township, Forest County spans about 760 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 | 1,760 ft540 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,950 ft595 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,190 ft360 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the middle of Howe Township, Forest County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Forest County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 195 2024 est.
- Land area
- 87.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5796° N, 79.0795° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 16239 16347
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- James City1,950 ft
- Highland Township, Elk County1,950 ft
- Cherry Grove Township1,850 ft
- Hamilton Township, McKean County1,810 ft
- Howe Township, Forest County1,760 ft
- Marienville1,750 ft
- Jenks Township1,750 ft
- Kingsley Township1,580 ft
- Clarendon1,430 ft
- Sheffield Township1,370 ft
- Sheffield1,360 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania210th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Forest Countyhighest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Swede Hill, McKean County2,130 ft
- Clarion Summit2,100 ft
- Bull Hill, Warren County2,010 ft
- Bald Hill, Forest County1,780 ft
- Fools Knob1,730 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.