Salem Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,530 ft 465 m1,380 ft 420 m1,310 ft 400 m1,150 ft 350 m1,000 ft 305 m930 ft 285 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
Salem Township sits at about 1,230 ft (375 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,230 ft 375 m
most residents: 1,100–1,310 ft
Lowest
930 ft 285 m
on the east side
Highest
1,530 ft 465 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,190 ft 365 m
all land inside township boundaries
Salem Township spans about 600 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 | 1,230 ft375 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 930 ft285 m |
| Airport (LBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,199 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,190 ft365 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.9 mi west to east through the middle of Salem Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,985 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 127 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4019° N, 79.5184° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Arnold Palmer Regional (LBE) 1,199 ft
- ZIP codes 8
- 15601 15624 15626 15632 15633 15670 15681 15684
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Delmont1,280 ft
- Salem Township1,230 ft
- Slickville1,180 ft
- Loyalhanna Township1,150 ft
- Grapeville1,140 ft
- Greensburg1,120 ft
- Jeannette1,110 ft
- Export1,040 ft
- New Alexandria1,010 ft
- Crabtree1,000 ft
- Saltsburg950 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,008th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County8th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Locust Knob1,260 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.