Lawson Heights, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,130 ft 345 m1,100 ft 335 m1,050 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m970 ft 295 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
Lawson Heights sits at about 1,070 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 330 m
most residents: 990–1,130 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the north side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
near the middle
Average
1,060 ft 325 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Lawson Heights spans about 210 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 | 1,070 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lawson Heights | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Airport (LBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,199 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,060 ft325 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,090 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,366 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2917° N, 79.3892° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Arnold Palmer Regional (LBE) 1,199 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15650
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Derry1,200 ft
- Unity Township1,200 ft
- Hostetter1,140 ft
- Derry Township, Westmoreland County1,120 ft
- Loyalhanna1,100 ft
- St. Vincent College1,090 ft
- Bradenville1,090 ft
- Lawson Heights1,070 ft
- Youngstown1,070 ft
- Latrobe1,020 ft
- Crabtree1,000 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,499th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County46th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Heinz Hill1,610 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.
- Lawson Heights 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.