Pitcairn, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,050 ft 320 m1,000 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m800 ft 245 m750 ft 230 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pitcairn sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 770–980 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
near the middle
Highest
1,150 ft 350 m
on the northeast side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside borough limits
Pitcairn spans about 400 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast side | 1,150 ft350 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, near the middle | 750 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Pitcairn | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (AGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.2 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,984 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 5,897 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4031° N, 79.7781° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Allegheny County (AGC) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15140
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East McKeesport1,160 ft
- Monroeville1,130 ft
- North Versailles Township1,120 ft
- Wilkins Township1,060 ft
- Level Green1,050 ft
- West Wilmerding960 ft
- Trafford890 ft
- Turtle Creek880 ft
- Pitcairn830 ft
- Wall820 ft
- Wilmerding780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,054th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County125th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the borough limits, 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 borough limits (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.