Penn Township, Centre County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,140 ft 655 m1,860 ft 565 m1,710 ft 520 m1,420 ft 435 m1,140 ft 345 m990 ft 300 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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, Centre County sits at about 1,220 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,220 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,040–1,700 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,140 ft 655 m
on the south side
Average
1,410 ft 430 m
all land inside township boundaries
Penn Township, Centre County spans about 1,150 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 | 1,220 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 2,140 ft655 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 990 ft300 m |
| Average of all land | 1,410 ft430 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.5 mi south to north through the middle of Penn Township, Centre County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,209 2024 est.
- Land area
- 28.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8650° N, 77.4960° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 16832 16854 16875
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Miles Township1,310 ft
- Madisonburg1,300 ft
- Rebersburg1,300 ft
- Gregg Township, Centre County1,240 ft
- Haines Township1,220 ft
- Penn Township, Centre County1,220 ft
- Aaronsburg1,190 ft
- Woodward1,160 ft
- Millheim1,120 ft
- Spring Mills1,080 ft
- Coburn1,040 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,041st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County29th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.