Penn Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,480 ft 450 m1,310 ft 400 m1,230 ft 375 m1,060 ft 320 m890 ft 270 m800 ft 245 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
Penn Township sits at about 1,120 ft (340 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,120 ft 340 m
most residents: 1,020–1,230 ft
Lowest
800 ft 245 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,480 ft 450 m
on the east side
Average
1,140 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Penn Township spans about 680 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 | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,480 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (LBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,199 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,140 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the middle of Penn Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 20,698 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.8 sq mi
- Density
- 673 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3707° N, 79.6622° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Arnold Palmer Regional (LBE) 1,199 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 15085 15623 15632 15636 15642 15644 15675
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Adamsburg1,210 ft
- Grapeville1,140 ft
- Penn Township1,120 ft
- Jeannette1,110 ft
- Manor1,090 ft
- Level Green1,050 ft
- Irwin1,050 ft
- Export1,040 ft
- Penn1,010 ft
- Harrison City1,000 ft
- North Irwin990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,324th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County29th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Sand Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Locust Knob1,260 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.