Jamestown, Cambria County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,800 ft 545 m1,750 ft 535 m1,730 ft 525 m1,680 ft 510 m1,630 ft 500 m1,610 ft 490 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Jamestown, Cambria County sits at about 1,730 ft (530 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,730 ft 530 m
most residents: 1,650–1,780 ft
Lowest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,800 ft 545 m
on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,680 ft 515 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Jamestown, Cambria County spans about 190 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 | 1,730 ft530 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,800 ft545 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Jamestown, Cambria County | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 1,680 ft515 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 385 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 616 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4045° N, 78.6553° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conemaugh River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cresson2,080 ft
- Spring Hill2,010 ft
- Washington Township, Cambria County2,000 ft
- Summerhill Township1,980 ft
- Lilly1,930 ft
- Munster Township1,890 ft
- Portage Township1,840 ft
- Cassandra1,790 ft
- Jamestown, Cambria County1,730 ft
- Portage1,680 ft
- Wilmore1,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania235th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County55th highest of 89
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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).
- 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.
- Jamestown, Cambria County 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.