Penn State Erie (Behrend), PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,090 ft 330 m1,040 ft 320 m950 ft 290 m860 ft 260 m810 ft 245 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
Penn State Erie (Behrend) sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,030 ft 315 m
few residents
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Penn State Erie (Behrend) spans about 370 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 810 ft245 m |
| Airport (ERI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi west of the CDP boundary | 732 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the middle of Penn State Erie (Behrend).
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,486 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 1,900 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.1178° N, 79.9858° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Erie International/Tom Ridge Field (ERI) 732 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16563
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Greenfield Township, Erie County1,430 ft
- Greene Township, Erie County1,330 ft
- Summit Township1,240 ft
- Penn State Erie (Behrend)1,030 ft
- Millcreek Township880 ft
- Harborcreek Township750 ft
- Wesleyville740 ft
- Northwest Harborcreek740 ft
- Erie740 ft
- Lawrence Park660 ft
- Lawrence Park Township660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,630th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Erie County22nd highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Oak Hill, Erie County1,420 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Penn State Erie (Behrend) 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.