Newell, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 290 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 265 m820 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 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
Newell sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 770–890 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Highest
960 ft 290 m
on the southeast side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside borough limits
Newell spans about 220 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 960 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Newell | 780 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 495 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 842 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0756° N, 79.8981° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 15438 15466
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Long Branch1,190 ft
- Twilight980 ft
- California910 ft
- Fayette City850 ft
- Newell790 ft
- Dunlevy790 ft
- Elco770 ft
- Borough of Allenport770 ft
- Coal Center770 ft
- Stockdale770 ft
- Roscoe770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,135th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County65th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- River Hills1,410 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.