Rochester, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m860 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m770 ft 235 m710 ft 215 m680 ft 210 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
Rochester sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 790–900 ft
Lowest
680 ft 210 m
on the west side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside borough limits
Rochester spans about 240 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northeast edge, below higher ground just outside | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 680 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Rochester | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi south of the borough limits | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,382 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,752 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7023° N, 80.2865° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15074
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rochester Township1,020 ft
- Monaca960 ft
- Pulaski Township, Beaver County920 ft
- Rochester850 ft
- East Rochester820 ft
- New Brighton800 ft
- Beaver790 ft
- Freedom790 ft
- Fallston760 ft
- Vanport Township750 ft
- Bridgewater710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,013th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Beaver County44th highest of 58
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Knob, Beaver County1,380 ft
- Steffens Hill1,290 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 ft
- Bunker Hill, Beaver County1,240 ft
- Booth Hill1,180 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.