Peru, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m1,010 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m960 ft 295 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
Peru sits at about 990 ft (305 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
990 ft 305 m
few residents
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the north side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the south edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Peru spans about 60 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 | 990 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Peru | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Airport (UNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi west of the CDP boundary | 1,231 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Nearest peak Greenlee Mountain, 8.9 mi south of the CDP boundary | 2,420 ft735 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
- 26 2020 Census
- Land area
- under 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 788 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8548° N, 77.7667° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- State College Regional (UNV) 1,231 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16823
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Centre Hall1,320 ft
- Harris Township1,160 ft
- College Township1,100 ft
- Lemont1,080 ft
- Benner Township1,080 ft
- Continental Courts1,040 ft
- Houserville1,030 ft
- Spring Township, Centre County1,020 ft
- Pleasant Gap1,010 ft
- Peru990 ft
- Bellefonte870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,741st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County58th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 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.
- Peru 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.