McKeesport, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 360 m1,060 ft 325 m1,000 ft 305 m890 ft 270 m780 ft 235 m720 ft 220 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
McKeesport sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 760–1,070 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,170 ft 360 m
on the east side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside city limits
McKeesport spans about 450 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,170 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for McKeesport | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (AGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi west of the city limits | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 17,119 2024 est.
- Land area
- 5.0 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,391 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3478° N, 79.8642° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Allegheny County (AGC) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15132
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lincoln1,160 ft
- West Mifflin1,100 ft
- Port Vue1,060 ft
- White Oak1,000 ft
- McKeesport940 ft
- Duquesne940 ft
- Dravosburg910 ft
- Liberty910 ft
- Versailles850 ft
- Glassport810 ft
- Boston770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,856th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County98th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.