Sykesville, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,690 ft 515 m1,600 ft 490 m1,560 ft 475 m1,470 ft 450 m1,380 ft 420 m1,330 ft 405 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
Sykesville sits at about 1,410 ft (430 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,410 ft 430 m
most residents: 1,360–1,580 ft
Lowest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the south side
Highest
1,690 ft 515 m
on the west side
Average
1,460 ft 445 m
all land inside borough limits
Sykesville spans about 360 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 | 1,410 ft430 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 1,690 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sykesville | 1,360 ft415 m |
| Airport (DUJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.2 mi northwest of the borough limits | 1,817 ft554 m |
| Average of all land | 1,460 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,082 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 684 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0503° N, 78.8223° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Mahoning Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dubois Regional (DUJ) 1,817 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 15865
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Luthersburg1,820 ft
- Brady Township1,680 ft
- Sandy Township1,590 ft
- Winslow Township1,570 ft
- Troutville1,530 ft
- Oklahoma, Clearfield County1,480 ft
- Sandy1,480 ft
- Henderson Township1,470 ft
- DuBois1,450 ft
- Sykesville1,410 ft
- Reynoldsville1,400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania643rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Jefferson County27th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- Coal Hill, Clearfield County2,060 ft
- Gobblers Knob, Jefferson County1,610 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.