Parks Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 445 m1,280 ft 390 m1,190 ft 365 m1,020 ft 310 m850 ft 260 m760 ft 235 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Parks Township sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 800–1,260 ft
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,450 ft 445 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,090 ft 330 m
all land inside township boundaries
Parks Township spans about 690 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,450 ft445 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 760 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.6 mi south to north through the middle of Parks Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,396 2024 est.
- Land area
- 14.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 171 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6204° N, 79.5606° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 15656 15690
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oklahoma1,010 ft
- Parks Township980 ft
- Vandergrift960 ft
- Pleasant View910 ft
- Leechburg900 ft
- North Apollo890 ft
- Kiskimere880 ft
- Apollo850 ft
- Borough of Hyde Park820 ft
- East Vandergrift800 ft
- North Vandergrift800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,785th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Armstrong County41st highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Locust Knob1,260 ft
- Whiskey Hollow Hill1,250 ft
- Gault Hill1,220 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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. All public domain.