Tell Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,980 ft 600 m1,660 ft 505 m1,500 ft 460 m1,190 ft 360 m870 ft 265 m720 ft 220 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tell Township sits at about 1,010 ft (305 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,010 ft 305 m
most residents: 750–1,190 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,980 ft 600 m
on the north side
Average
1,090 ft 335 m
all land inside township boundaries
Tell Township spans about 1,260 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 | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,980 ft600 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 1,090 ft335 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.9 mi south to north through the middle of Tell Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 546 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.6 sq mi
- Density
- 13 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2632° N, 77.7653° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 17021 17213 17255
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dublin Township1,070 ft
- Fannett Township1,040 ft
- Tell Township1,010 ft
- Shade Gap1,000 ft
- Lack Township990 ft
- Cromwell Township930 ft
- Shirley Township750 ft
- Orbisonia640 ft
- Rockhill620 ft
- Allenport610 ft
- Shirleysburg600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,705th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Huntingdon County21st highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Big Mountain2,460 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 720 ft at 40.2896° N, 77.7151° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.