Portersville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,440 ft 435 m1,390 ft 425 m1,370 ft 415 m1,320 ft 400 m1,270 ft 390 m1,250 ft 380 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Portersville sits at about 1,320 ft (400 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,320 ft 400 m
most residents: 1,300–1,390 ft
Lowest
1,250 ft 380 m
on the east side
Highest
1,440 ft 435 m
on the north side
Average
1,350 ft 410 m
all land inside borough limits
Portersville spans about 190 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 | 1,320 ft400 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the north side | 1,440 ft435 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Portersville | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Airport (PJC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.9 mi south of the borough limits | 907 ft276 m |
| Average of all land | 1,350 ft410 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 225 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Density
- 283 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9228° N, 80.1423° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Zelienople Municipal (PJC) 907 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16051
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Prospect1,330 ft
- Portersville1,320 ft
- Franklin Township, Butler County1,320 ft
- Muddy Creek Township1,270 ft
- Lake Arthur Estates1,260 ft
- Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence County1,230 ft
- Worth Township1,210 ft
- Lancaster Township, Butler County1,190 ft
- Perry Township, Lawrence County1,140 ft
- Wurtemburg960 ft
- Ellport890 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania797th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Butler County17th highest of 71
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Knob, Beaver County1,380 ft
- Fletcher Hill1,330 ft
- Steffens Hill1,290 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 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.