Oil City, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,390 ft 425 m1,320 ft 405 m1,190 ft 360 m1,050 ft 320 m980 ft 300 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
Oil City sits at about 1,180 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,180 ft 360 m
most residents: 1,030–1,370 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the east side
Average
1,230 ft 375 m
all land inside city limits
Oil City spans about 550 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 | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 980 ft300 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Oil City | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Airport (FKL) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.9 mi southwest of the city limits | 1,540 ft469 m |
| Average of all land | 1,230 ft375 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 9,368 2024 est.
- Land area
- 4.5 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,085 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4339° N, 79.7064° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Venango Regional (FKL) 1,540 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16301
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cherrytree Township1,540 ft
- Oakland Township, Venango County1,490 ft
- President Township1,490 ft
- Hasson Heights1,460 ft
- Seneca1,460 ft
- Cornplanter Township1,440 ft
- Cranberry Township, Venango County1,430 ft
- Woodland Heights1,290 ft
- Oil City1,180 ft
- Rouseville1,090 ft
- Franklin1,010 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,153rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Venango County28th highest of 36
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pine Hill, Venango County1,690 ft
- Cream Hill1,650 ft
- Foster Hill, Venango County1,580 ft
- Hoag Hill1,520 ft
- Summit Hill1,450 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.