Independence Township, Washington County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,390 ft 425 m1,230 ft 375 m1,160 ft 355 m1,000 ft 305 m850 ft 260 m770 ft 235 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
Independence Township, Washington County 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: 920–1,220 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the north side
Highest
1,390 ft 425 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Independence Township, Washington County spans about 620 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 southeast side | 1,390 ft425 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Independence Township, Washington County | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Airport (HLG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,194 ft364 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,494 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.8 sq mi
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2540° N, 80.5076° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Wheeling Ohio County (HLG) 1,194 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 15312 15323
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West Middletown1,240 ft
- Jefferson Township, Washington County1,180 ft
- Hopewell Township, Washington County1,170 ft
- Independence Township, Washington County1,160 ft
- Avella990 ft
- Mingo Junction, OH970 ft
- Hooverson Heights, WV960 ft
- Bethany, WV910 ft
- Follansbee, WV780 ft
- Brilliant, OH710 ft
- Wellsburg, WV670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,205th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Washington County32nd highest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mosier Hill1,500 ft
- Sampson Hill1,490 ft
- Quakers Knob1,420 ft
- Garrett Hill1,400 ft
- Cemetery Hill, Washington County1,330 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.