New Salem, Fayette County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,250 ft 380 m1,180 ft 360 m1,150 ft 350 m1,080 ft 330 m1,010 ft 305 m970 ft 295 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
New Salem, Fayette County sits at about 1,060 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,060 ft 325 m
most residents: 990–1,200 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the west side
Highest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,090 ft 335 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
New Salem, Fayette County spans about 280 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 | 1,060 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for New Salem, Fayette County | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 499 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 430 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9242° N, 79.8356° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 15468
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Menallen Township1,150 ft
- German Township1,120 ft
- Allison1,080 ft
- Buffington1,080 ft
- Nemacolin1,070 ft
- South Uniontown1,070 ft
- New Salem, Fayette County1,060 ft
- Redstone Township1,050 ft
- Edenborn1,040 ft
- Republic1,020 ft
- Smock960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,542nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County37th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Sunshine Hill1,200 ft
- Goodwin Knob1,200 ft
- Locks Hill1,190 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 970 ft at 39.9237° N, 79.8410° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.
- New Salem, Fayette County is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.