Southmont, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,770 ft 540 m1,620 ft 495 m1,550 ft 475 m1,410 ft 430 m1,270 ft 385 m1,200 ft 365 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
Southmont sits at about 1,600 ft (485 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,600 ft 485 m
most residents: 1,450–1,710 ft
Lowest
1,200 ft 365 m
on the east side
Highest
1,770 ft 540 m
on the west side
Average
1,580 ft 485 m
all land inside borough limits
Southmont spans about 570 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 | 1,600 ft485 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 1,770 ft540 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the east side | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Southmont | 1,590 ft485 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.3 mi east of the borough limits | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 1,580 ft485 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,985 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,887 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3106° N, 78.9386° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Conemaugh River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15905
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Daisytown1,780 ft
- Westmont1,740 ft
- Upper Yoder Township1,670 ft
- Elim1,670 ft
- Westwood1,660 ft
- Southmont1,600 ft
- Borough of Brownstown1,500 ft
- Ferndale1,300 ft
- Dale1,270 ft
- Johnstown1,230 ft
- Riverside, Cambria County1,200 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania385th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Cambria County71st highest of 89
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.