New Castle, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 355 m1,060 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m910 ft 280 m810 ft 250 m760 ft 230 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
New Castle sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 810–1,080 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the east side
Average
920 ft 280 m
all land inside city limits
New Castle 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Castle | 840 ft255 m |
| Airport (UCP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.6 mi northwest of the city limits | 1,072 ft327 m |
| Average of all land | 920 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 21,332 2024 est.
- Land area
- 8.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,567 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0037° N, 80.3470° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- New Castle Municipal (UCP) 1,072 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 16101 16102 16105
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hickory Township1,130 ft
- Shenango Township1,100 ft
- Neshannock Township1,100 ft
- Oakland1,070 ft
- Union Township, Lawrence County1,040 ft
- New Castle Northwest1,040 ft
- Oakwood1,020 ft
- South New Castle1,010 ft
- New Castle960 ft
- Taylor Township, Lawrence County890 ft
- Edinburg790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,824th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lawrence County32nd highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fletcher Hill1,330 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 ft
- Bird Hill1,180 ft
- High Hill1,180 ft
- Stony Hill, Mercer County1,160 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. All public domain.