Masontown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,070 ft 325 m1,020 ft 310 m920 ft 280 m810 ft 250 m760 ft 235 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Masontown sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 940–1,030 ft
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the west side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the north side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside borough limits
Masontown spans about 410 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 760 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Masontown | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Airport (MGW) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi south of the borough limits | 1,244 ft379 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,153 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,109 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.8467° N, 79.8998° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Morgantown Municipal/Walter L Bill Hart Field (MGW) 1,244 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15461
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- German Township1,120 ft
- Nicholson Township1,090 ft
- Nemacolin1,070 ft
- Edenborn1,040 ft
- Cumberland Township, Greene County1,010 ft
- Monongahela Township990 ft
- Masontown980 ft
- Fairdale980 ft
- Ronco970 ft
- Mapletown950 ft
- Greensboro810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,774th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County50th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Turkey Knob, Greene County1,480 ft
- Sunshine Hill1,200 ft
- Goodwin Knob1,200 ft
- Locks Hill1,190 ft
- Friendship Hill, Fayette County1,050 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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.