Jefferson Township, Somerset County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,980 ft 910 m2,720 ft 830 m2,590 ft 790 m2,330 ft 710 m2,070 ft 630 m1,940 ft 590 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
Jefferson Township, Somerset County sits at about 2,240 ft (685 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,240 ft 685 m
most residents: 2,050–2,630 ft
Lowest
1,940 ft 590 m
on the south side
Highest
2,980 ft 910 m
on the west side
Average
2,340 ft 715 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jefferson Township, Somerset County spans about 1,040 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 | 2,240 ft685 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,980 ft910 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Average of all land | 2,340 ft715 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the middle of Jefferson Township, Somerset County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,400 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0479° N, 79.2141° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Laurel Hill Creek → Youghiogheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 3
- 15501 15502 15622
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seven Springs2,620 ft
- Jefferson Township, Somerset County2,240 ft
- Somerset2,130 ft
- New Centerville2,130 ft
- Lincoln Township2,100 ft
- Milford Township, Somerset County2,080 ft
- Middlecreek Township, Somerset County2,060 ft
- Edie2,020 ft
- Acosta1,860 ft
- Gray1,840 ft
- Donegal Township, Westmoreland County1,710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania18th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Somerset County12th highest of 56
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 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.