Mercer, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,240 ft 380 m1,210 ft 370 m1,160 ft 355 m1,110 ft 340 m1,090 ft 330 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
Mercer sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,140–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,090 ft 330 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
near the middle
Average
1,180 ft 360 m
all land inside borough limits
Mercer spans about 200 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, near the middle | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 1,090 ft330 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Mercer | 1,270 ft385 m |
| Airport (29D) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi southeast of the borough limits | 1,371 ft418 m |
| Average of all land | 1,180 ft360 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,922 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,661 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2270° N, 80.2398° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Grove City (29D) 1,371 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16137
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jackson Center1,300 ft
- Springfield Township, Mercer County1,280 ft
- Jackson Township, Mercer County1,280 ft
- Coolspring Township1,260 ft
- Lackawannock Township1,240 ft
- East Lackawannock Township1,240 ft
- Lake Latonka1,220 ft
- Mercer1,200 ft
- Fredonia1,200 ft
- Jefferson Township, Mercer County1,190 ft
- Findley Township1,140 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,068th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Mercer County26th highest of 49
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wheeler Hill1,360 ft
- Big Bend Hill1,290 ft
- Keel Ridge1,270 ft
- Quarry Hill, Mercer County1,240 ft
- Bird Hill1,180 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.