Shaler Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,300 ft 395 m1,160 ft 355 m1,090 ft 330 m940 ft 285 m800 ft 245 m730 ft 220 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Shaler Township sits at about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
most residents: 890–1,140 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the south side
Highest
1,300 ft 395 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,000 ft 305 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shaler Township spans about 570 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 | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 730 ft220 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi west of the township boundaries | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 1,000 ft305 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.3 mi south to north through the middle of Shaler Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 27,109 2024 est.
- Land area
- 11.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,449 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5252° N, 79.9651° 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 5
- 15101 15116 15209 15215 15223
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- West View1,160 ft
- Reserve Township1,160 ft
- Ross Township1,150 ft
- Allison Park1,110 ft
- Glenshaw1,080 ft
- Shaler Township1,030 ft
- O'Hara Township1,010 ft
- Millvale790 ft
- Etna790 ft
- Aspinwall760 ft
- Sharpsburg740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,629th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County79th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 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.