Snow Shoe Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,310 ft 705 m1,970 ft 600 m1,800 ft 550 m1,460 ft 445 m1,130 ft 345 m960 ft 290 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
Snow Shoe Township sits at about 1,530 ft (465 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,530 ft 465 m
most residents: 1,420–1,670 ft
Lowest
960 ft 290 m
on the northeast side
Highest
2,310 ft 705 m
on the south side
Average
1,590 ft 485 m
all land inside township boundaries
Snow Shoe Township spans about 1,350 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 | 1,530 ft465 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 2,310 ft705 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 960 ft290 m |
| Airport (UNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.5 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 1,231 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,590 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.4 mi south to north through the middle of Snow Shoe Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,597 2024 est.
- Land area
- 83.5 sq mi
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0433° N, 77.9563° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- State College Regional (UNV) 1,231 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 16829 16859 16874
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Snow Shoe1,670 ft
- Drifting1,610 ft
- Grassflat1,570 ft
- Snow Shoe Township1,530 ft
- Moshannon1,520 ft
- Pine Glen1,520 ft
- Burnside Township, Centre County1,520 ft
- Clarence1,520 ft
- Union Township, Centre County1,200 ft
- Yarnell1,130 ft
- Runville910 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania460th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County4th highest of 78
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.