Shade Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,960 ft 905 m2,640 ft 805 m2,480 ft 755 m2,160 ft 660 m1,840 ft 560 m1,670 ft 510 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
Shade Township sits at about 2,280 ft (695 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,280 ft 695 m
most residents: 2,160–2,570 ft
Lowest
1,680 ft 510 m
on the west side
Highest
2,960 ft 905 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,390 ft 730 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shade Township spans about 1,280 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 | 2,280 ft695 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 2,960 ft905 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,680 ft510 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.6 mi north of the township boundaries | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 2,390 ft730 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the middle of Shade Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 2,382 2024 est.
- Land area
- 68.7 sq mi
- Density
- 35 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1140° N, 78.8300° 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 5
- 15563 15924 15926 15936 15963
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ogle Township2,530 ft
- Stonycreek Township, Somerset County2,340 ft
- Indian Lake2,340 ft
- Shade Township2,280 ft
- Shanksville2,230 ft
- Cairnbrook2,220 ft
- Central City2,190 ft
- Paint Township2,030 ft
- Stoystown2,010 ft
- Quemahoning Township1,980 ft
- Hooversville1,710 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania15th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Somerset County10th highest of 56
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.