Lafayette Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,290 ft 695 m2,080 ft 635 m1,970 ft 600 m1,760 ft 535 m1,550 ft 475 m1,450 ft 440 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
Lafayette Township sits at about 2,160 ft (660 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,160 ft 660 m
most residents: 2,070–2,160 ft
Lowest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the west side
Highest
2,290 ft 695 m
on the northeast side
Average
2,040 ft 620 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lafayette Township spans about 840 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 | 2,160 ft660 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 2,290 ft695 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lafayette Township | 2,150 ft655 m |
| Airport (BFD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,143 ft653 m |
| Average of all land | 2,040 ft620 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,109 2024 est.
- Land area
- 71.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.7937° N, 78.6797° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bradford Regional (BFD) 2,143 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 16701 16726 16732 16738 16740
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mount Jewett2,230 ft
- Rew2,200 ft
- Lafayette Township2,160 ft
- Hamlin Township2,080 ft
- Wetmore Township1,980 ft
- Kane1,980 ft
- Keating Township1,900 ft
- Bradford Township1,580 ft
- Lewis Run1,560 ft
- University of Pittsburgh Bradford1,480 ft
- Bradford1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania38th highest of 3,545
- Towns in McKean County3rd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Howard Hill2,320 ft
- Dana Heights2,230 ft
- Ormsbys Summit2,230 ft
- Cherry Hill, McKean County2,210 ft
- Big Shanty Hill2,200 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.