McCandless Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,240 ft 375 m1,190 ft 360 m1,090 ft 330 m990 ft 300 m940 ft 285 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
McCandless Township sits at about 1,140 ft (350 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,140 ft 350 m
most residents: 1,070–1,230 ft
Lowest
940 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,340 ft 405 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,140 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
McCandless Township spans about 400 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 | 1,140 ft350 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,340 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 940 ft285 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.8 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the middle of McCandless Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 28,684 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,739 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5767° N, 80.0294° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 15044 15090 15101 15237
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pine Township1,220 ft
- Franklin Park1,200 ft
- West View1,160 ft
- Gibsonia1,150 ft
- Ross Township1,150 ft
- Hampton Township1,140 ft
- McCandless Township1,140 ft
- Ohio Township1,130 ft
- Allison Park1,110 ft
- Glenshaw1,080 ft
- Shaler Township1,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,256th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County26th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Knob, Beaver County1,380 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Bunker Hill, Beaver County1,240 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.