North Belle Vernon, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m980 ft 300 m940 ft 290 m870 ft 265 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 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
North Belle Vernon sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 900–940 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the east side
Average
890 ft 275 m
all land inside borough limits
North Belle Vernon spans about 290 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for North Belle Vernon | 910 ft275 m |
| Airport (FWQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.2 mi north of the borough limits | 1,228 ft374 m |
| Average of all land | 890 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,829 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 4,355 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1292° N, 79.8681° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rostraver (FWQ) 1,228 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15012
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Long Branch1,190 ft
- Monessen1,040 ft
- Twilight980 ft
- Washington Township, Fayette County940 ft
- Lynnwood-Pricedale940 ft
- Fairhope930 ft
- North Belle Vernon920 ft
- Speers920 ft
- Charleroi900 ft
- Belle Vernon870 ft
- Dunlevy790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,894th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County77th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Kilndigging Hill1,290 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).
- 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, 760 ft at 40.1301° N, 79.8729° 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.
- 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.