Shippen Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,370 ft 720 m2,020 ft 615 m1,850 ft 565 m1,500 ft 460 m1,160 ft 355 m990 ft 300 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Shippen Township sits at about 1,300 ft (395 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,300 ft 395 m
most residents: 1,040–2,040 ft
Lowest
990 ft 300 m
on the southeast side
Highest
2,370 ft 720 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,710 ft 520 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shippen Township spans about 1,380 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 | 1,300 ft395 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 2,370 ft720 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 990 ft300 m |
| Average of all land | 1,710 ft520 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through the middle of Shippen Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Cameron County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,863 2024 est.
- Land area
- 156.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 12 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5275° N, 78.2758° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 15834 16720
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Keating Township, Potter County2,020 ft
- Liberty Township, McKean County1,870 ft
- Wharton Township, Potter County1,860 ft
- Austin1,770 ft
- Norwich Township1,620 ft
- Lumber Township1,580 ft
- Portage Township, Potter County1,510 ft
- Shippen Township1,300 ft
- Portage Township, Cameron County1,200 ft
- Prospect Park, Cameron County1,040 ft
- Emporium1,030 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania847th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cameron County3rd highest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Bryan Hill2,130 ft
- Doll Hill2,130 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.