South Philipsburg, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,610 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,540 ft 470 m1,490 ft 455 m1,440 ft 440 m1,420 ft 435 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
South Philipsburg sits at about 1,460 ft (445 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,460 ft 445 m
most residents: 1,420–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,420 ft 435 m
on the north side
Highest
1,610 ft 490 m
on the east edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
1,480 ft 450 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Philipsburg spans about 190 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 | 1,460 ft445 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,610 ft490 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 1,420 ft435 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Philipsburg | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Airport (PSB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.5 mi east of the CDP boundary | 1,948 ft594 m |
| Average of all land | 1,480 ft450 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 387 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,477 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8859° N, 78.2208° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Mid-State (PSB) 1,948 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16866
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Morrisdale1,630 ft
- West Decatur1,620 ft
- Rush Township1,590 ft
- Morris Township1,570 ft
- Decatur Township1,550 ft
- Osceola Mills1,520 ft
- North Philipsburg1,490 ft
- Chester Hill1,480 ft
- South Philipsburg1,460 ft
- Philipsburg1,450 ft
- Hawk Run1,450 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania563rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County11th 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 CDP boundary, 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 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.
- South Philipsburg 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.