Rostraver Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,410 ft 430 m1,240 ft 380 m1,150 ft 350 m980 ft 300 m810 ft 245 m730 ft 220 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
Rostraver Township sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 910–1,180 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Highest
1,411 ft 430 m
on Sheppler Hill
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside township boundaries
Rostraver Township spans about 690 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Sheppler Hill | 1,411 ft430 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Airport (FWQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 1,228 ft374 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.7 mi west to east through the middle of Rostraver Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 11,445 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.1 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 356 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1737° N, 79.8091° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rostraver (FWQ) 1,228 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 15012 15072 15087 15089 15479
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Fellsburg1,130 ft
- Rostraver Township1,080 ft
- Collinsburg960 ft
- Washington Township, Fayette County940 ft
- Lynnwood-Pricedale940 ft
- Donora930 ft
- Arnold City920 ft
- Sutersville880 ft
- West Newton810 ft
- Smithton800 ft
- Webster790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,493rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County44th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Layton Hill1,570 ft
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.