Shelltown, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m910 ft 280 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shelltown sits at about 950 ft (290 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
950 ft 290 m
few residents
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
950 ft 290 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Shelltown spans about 100 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 950 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 910 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shelltown | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (AOO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 1,503 ft458 m |
| Average of all land | 950 ft290 m |
| Nearest peak Brush Mountain, 7.8 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 2,580 ft785 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 56 2020 Census
- Land area
- under 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,500 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4565° N, 78.2064° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Juniata River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Altoona/Blair County (AOO) 1,503 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16693
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodbury Township1,110 ft
- Larke1,030 ft
- Catharine Township1,000 ft
- Shelltown950 ft
- Cove Forge910 ft
- Fisherville900 ft
- Franklin Forge900 ft
- Williamsburg880 ft
- St. Clair, Blair County880 ft
- Robeson Extension880 ft
- Ganister870 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,844th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Blair County93rd highest of 108
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- Shelltown is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.