Polk Township, Jefferson County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,000 ft 610 m1,850 ft 565 m1,780 ft 545 m1,640 ft 500 m1,500 ft 455 m1,430 ft 435 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
Polk Township, Jefferson County sits at about 1,680 ft (515 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,680 ft 515 m
most residents: 1,610–1,820 ft
Lowest
1,430 ft 435 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,000 ft 610 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,700 ft 520 m
all land inside township boundaries
Polk Township, Jefferson County spans about 570 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 | 1,680 ft515 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,000 ft610 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,430 ft435 m |
| Airport (DUJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,817 ft554 m |
| Average of all land | 1,700 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.6 mi west to east through the middle of Polk Township, Jefferson County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 276 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 8.6 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2875° N, 78.9569° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dubois Regional (DUJ) 1,817 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 15824 15825 15853 15860
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Warsaw Township1,690 ft
- Heath Township1,680 ft
- Polk Township, Jefferson County1,680 ft
- Eldred Township, Jefferson County1,660 ft
- Washington Township, Jefferson County1,660 ft
- Millstone Township1,650 ft
- Snyder Township, Jefferson County1,640 ft
- Spring Creek Township, Elk County1,640 ft
- Barnett Township, Jefferson County1,540 ft
- Pine Creek Township, Jefferson County1,480 ft
- Brockway1,460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania271st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Jefferson County4th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Beartown Rocks1,930 ft
- Edeburn Hill1,900 ft
- Stahlman Roundtop1,860 ft
- Gregg Hill1,690 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.