Porter Township, Jefferson County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,810 ft 555 m1,660 ft 505 m1,590 ft 485 m1,440 ft 440 m1,290 ft 390 m1,210 ft 370 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Porter Township, Jefferson County sits at about 1,640 ft (500 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,640 ft 500 m
most residents: 1,450–1,810 ft
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,810 ft 555 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,540 ft 470 m
all land inside township boundaries
Porter Township, Jefferson County spans about 600 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 | 1,640 ft500 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,810 ft555 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Porter Township, Jefferson County | 1,540 ft470 m |
| Average of all land | 1,540 ft470 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 292 2024 est.
- Land area
- 17.7 sq mi
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9340° N, 79.1686° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 15767 16222
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Porter Township, Jefferson County1,640 ft
- Perry Township, Jefferson County1,520 ft
- Ringgold Township1,480 ft
- North Mahoning Township1,460 ft
- Wayne Township, Armstrong County1,450 ft
- Redbank Township, Armstrong County1,430 ft
- West Mahoning Township1,420 ft
- Dayton1,360 ft
- Timblin1,270 ft
- Smicksburg1,200 ft
- Worthville1,190 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania330th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Jefferson County8th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Kinter Hill2,070 ft
- Doty Roundtop1,910 ft
- Gobblers Knob, Jefferson County1,610 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.