Orviston, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m960 ft 295 m940 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Orviston sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 840–850 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the east side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Orviston spans about 160 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Orviston | 850 ft260 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 64 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 598 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.1065° N, 77.7522° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 1
- 16864
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Curtin Township1,160 ft
- Yarnell1,130 ft
- Orviston850 ft
- Howard Township800 ft
- Monument760 ft
- Liberty Township, Centre County760 ft
- Mount Eagle750 ft
- Howard680 ft
- Beech Creek Township660 ft
- Blanchard640 ft
- Beech Creek610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,028th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County66th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Bunker Hill, Clinton County1,360 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).
- 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.
- Orviston 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.