Scottdale, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,180 ft 360 m1,140 ft 345 m1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m1,040 ft 315 m1,020 ft 310 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
Scottdale 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: 1,040–1,140 ft
Lowest
1,020 ft 310 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,180 ft 360 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,080 ft 330 m
all land inside borough limits
Scottdale spans about 160 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 borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,180 ft360 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,020 ft310 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Scottdale | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Airport (LBE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 14 mi northeast of the borough limits | 1,199 ft365 m |
| Average of all land | 1,080 ft330 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,329 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 3,716 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1004° N, 79.5870° 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 1
- 15683
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bullskin Township1,190 ft
- Mount Pleasant1,160 ft
- East Huntingdon Township1,150 ft
- Lower Tyrone Township1,130 ft
- Connellsville Township1,110 ft
- Upper Tyrone Township1,090 ft
- Scottdale1,080 ft
- Everson1,070 ft
- Vanderbilt980 ft
- Connellsville960 ft
- Dawson850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,467th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County42nd highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Roundtop, Fayette County1,410 ft
- Bark Hill1,410 ft
- Sand Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 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.