Portage Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,800 ft 855 m2,490 ft 760 m2,340 ft 710 m2,030 ft 620 m1,720 ft 525 m1,570 ft 480 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
Portage Township sits at about 1,840 ft (560 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,840 ft 560 m
most residents: 1,650–2,300 ft
Lowest
1,570 ft 480 m
on the northwest side
Highest
2,800 ft 855 m
on the east side
Average
2,180 ft 665 m
all land inside township boundaries
Portage Township spans about 1,230 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 | 1,840 ft560 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 2,800 ft855 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,570 ft480 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.5 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 2,180 ft665 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the middle of Portage Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,355 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 136 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3791° N, 78.6665° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conemaugh River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 15938 15946
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Beaverdale2,020 ft
- Spring Hill2,010 ft
- Washington Township, Cambria County2,000 ft
- Summerhill Township1,980 ft
- Lilly1,930 ft
- Croyle Township1,900 ft
- Portage Township1,840 ft
- Cassandra1,790 ft
- Jamestown, Cambria County1,730 ft
- Portage1,680 ft
- Wilmore1,560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania163rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County38th highest of 89
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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.