Somerset, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,340 ft 715 m2,270 ft 690 m2,230 ft 680 m2,160 ft 655 m2,080 ft 635 m2,040 ft 625 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.
- Borough area
- Fades everything outside the official borough limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Somerset sits at about 2,130 ft (650 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
2,130 ft 650 m
most residents: 2,110–2,190 ft
Lowest
2,040 ft 625 m
on the west side
Highest
2,340 ft 715 m
on the southeast side
Average
2,170 ft 660 m
all land inside borough limits
Somerset spans about 300 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 | 2,130 ft650 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 2,340 ft715 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 2,040 ft625 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Somerset | 2,180 ft665 m |
| Airport (2G9) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.1 mi northeast of the borough limits | 2,275 ft693 m |
| Average of all land | 2,170 ft660 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 5,870 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Density
- 2,151 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.0084° N, 79.0781° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Casselman River → Youghiogheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Somerset County (2G9) 2,275 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15501
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jefferson Township, Somerset County2,240 ft
- Somerset Township2,220 ft
- Black Township2,150 ft
- Somerset2,130 ft
- New Centerville2,130 ft
- Friedens2,100 ft
- Lincoln Township2,100 ft
- Milford Township, Somerset County2,080 ft
- Edie2,020 ft
- Acosta1,860 ft
- Rockwood1,850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania44th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Somerset County20th highest of 56
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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.