Imperial, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,220 ft 370 m1,170 ft 360 m1,080 ft 330 m990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Imperial sits at about 1,090 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,090 ft 330 m
most residents: 990–1,200 ft
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Imperial spans about 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 | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 940 ft285 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Imperial | 970 ft295 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,722 2020 Census
- Land area
- 3.2 sq mi
- Density
- 858 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4495° N, 80.2445° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15126
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clinton1,180 ft
- Robinson Township, Washington County1,150 ft
- Carnot-Moon1,140 ft
- Noblestown1,120 ft
- Findlay Township1,110 ft
- Enlow1,100 ft
- North Fayette Township1,090 ft
- Imperial1,090 ft
- Moon Township1,080 ft
- Sturgeon1,070 ft
- Oakdale970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,460th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County54th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quakers Knob1,420 ft
- Garrett Hill1,400 ft
- Hannas Knob1,400 ft
- Bunker Hill, Beaver County1,240 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 940 ft at 40.4546° N, 80.2346° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- Imperial is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.