Smethport, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,130 ft 650 m1,960 ft 595 m1,880 ft 570 m1,710 ft 520 m1,540 ft 470 m1,460 ft 445 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
Smethport sits at about 1,500 ft (460 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,500 ft 460 m
most residents: 1,470–1,600 ft
Lowest
1,460 ft 445 m
on the east side
Highest
2,130 ft 650 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,580 ft 480 m
all land inside borough limits
Smethport spans about 670 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 | 1,500 ft460 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Smethport | 1,560 ft475 m |
| Airport (BFD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.3 mi west of the borough limits | 2,143 ft653 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft480 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,380 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.7 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 821 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8112° N, 78.4447° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Bradford Regional (BFD) 2,143 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16749
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Rew2,200 ft
- Hamlin Township2,080 ft
- Sergeant Township2,080 ft
- Keating Township1,900 ft
- Annin Township1,890 ft
- Otto Township1,820 ft
- Eldred Township, McKean County1,680 ft
- Norwich Township1,620 ft
- Smethport1,500 ft
- Port Allegany1,500 ft
- Eldred1,470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania503rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in McKean County20th highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Prospect Hill, McKean County2,450 ft
- Devils Den, McKean County2,330 ft
- Ormsbys Summit2,230 ft
- Bush Hill2,210 ft
- The Nipple2,040 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.