Platea, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
990 ft 300 m930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m760 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
Platea sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 860–940 ft
Lowest
760 ft 230 m
on the west side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the southeast side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside borough limits
Platea spans about 230 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 760 ft230 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Platea | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (ERI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northeast of the borough limits | 732 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 434 2024 est.
- Land area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Density
- 130 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9503° N, 80.3281° 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 2
- 16410 16417
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township, Erie County1,260 ft
- Elk Creek Township1,110 ft
- Conneaut Township1,020 ft
- Cranesville920 ft
- Albion910 ft
- Platea890 ft
- Girard Township790 ft
- Fairview Township, Erie County770 ft
- Girard770 ft
- Lake City710 ft
- Springfield Township, Erie County710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,954th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Erie County27th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Gibson Hill1,550 ft
- Mount Pleasant1,510 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.