Rankin, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m860 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 225 m720 ft 220 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
Rankin sits at about 860 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
860 ft 265 m
most residents: 800–870 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the south side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside borough limits
Rankin spans about 180 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 | 860 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 720 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rankin | 880 ft265 m |
| Airport (AGC) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi southwest of the borough limits | 1,252 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,910 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 4,411 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4126° N, 79.8792° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Allegheny County (AGC) 1,252 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15104
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Braddock Hills1,120 ft
- Forest Hills1,110 ft
- Munhall1,050 ft
- Chalfant1,050 ft
- Whitaker1,030 ft
- Wilkinsburg1,010 ft
- Edgewood930 ft
- Swissvale930 ft
- Homestead930 ft
- Rankin860 ft
- Braddock800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,003rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County117th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 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.