Union Township, Centre County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,430 ft 740 m2,000 ft 610 m1,790 ft 545 m1,360 ft 415 m930 ft 285 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
Union Township, Centre County sits at about 1,200 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,200 ft 365 m
most residents: 760–1,490 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the east side
Highest
2,430 ft 740 m
on the west side
Average
1,500 ft 455 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Centre County spans about 1,710 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 | 1,200 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,430 ft740 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 720 ft220 m |
| Airport (UNV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.0 mi south of the township boundaries | 1,231 ft375 m |
| Average of all land | 1,500 ft455 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the middle of Union Township, Centre County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,362 2024 est.
- Land area
- 45.6 sq mi
- Density
- 30 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9208° N, 77.8798° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Bald Eagle Creek → West Branch Susquehanna River → Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- State College Regional (UNV) 1,231 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 16823 16844
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Centre County1,200 ft
- Benner Township1,080 ft
- Continental Courts1,040 ft
- Boggs Township960 ft
- Moose Run920 ft
- Runville910 ft
- Bellefonte870 ft
- Julian840 ft
- Borough of Unionville790 ft
- Eagle Creek780 ft
- Milesburg700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,095th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Centre County32nd 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 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.