Sturgeon, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,160 ft 355 m1,100 ft 335 m1,070 ft 325 m1,010 ft 310 m960 ft 290 m930 ft 280 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sturgeon sits at about 1,070 ft (325 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,070 ft 325 m
most residents: 970–1,090 ft
Lowest
930 ft 280 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,160 ft 355 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Sturgeon spans about 230 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 | 1,070 ft325 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 930 ft280 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sturgeon | 950 ft290 m |
| Airport (PIT) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.6 mi north of the CDP boundary | 1,203 ft367 m |
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,611 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Density
- 1,438 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3848° N, 80.2109° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Pittsburgh International (PIT) 1,203 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 15057 15082
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Southview1,150 ft
- Cecil-Bishop1,140 ft
- Noblestown1,120 ft
- Borough of Midway1,110 ft
- North Fayette Township1,090 ft
- South Fayette Township1,080 ft
- Sturgeon1,070 ft
- Collier Township1,060 ft
- McDonald1,030 ft
- Rennerdale990 ft
- Oakdale970 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,511th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County62nd highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Quakers Knob1,420 ft
- Garrett Hill1,400 ft
- Hannas Knob1,400 ft
- Cemetery Hill, Washington County1,330 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.
- Sturgeon 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. All public domain.