Richland Township, Cambria County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,320 ft 705 m2,050 ft 625 m1,910 ft 585 m1,640 ft 500 m1,370 ft 420 m1,230 ft 375 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
Richland Township, Cambria County sits at about 1,980 ft (605 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,980 ft 605 m
most residents: 1,790–2,230 ft
Lowest
1,230 ft 375 m
on the west side
Highest
2,320 ft 705 m
near the middle
Average
2,000 ft 610 m
all land inside township boundaries
Richland Township, Cambria County spans about 1,090 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 | 1,980 ft605 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 2,320 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 2,000 ft610 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the middle of Richland Township, Cambria County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 12,004 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.7 sq mi
- Density
- 580 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2804° N, 78.8560° 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 3
- 15902 15904 15963
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- University of Pittsburgh Johnstown2,160 ft
- Richland Township, Cambria County1,980 ft
- Geistown1,850 ft
- Belmont1,770 ft
- Scalp Level1,760 ft
- Windber1,740 ft
- Paint1,690 ft
- Stonycreek Township1,670 ft
- Oakland, Cambria County1,660 ft
- Lorain1,480 ft
- Ferndale1,300 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania94th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County23rd 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.