Union Township, Erie County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,710 ft 520 m1,580 ft 485 m1,520 ft 465 m1,390 ft 425 m1,270 ft 385 m1,210 ft 370 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, Erie County sits at about 1,440 ft (440 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,440 ft 440 m
most residents: 1,310–1,570 ft
Lowest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the west side
Highest
1,710 ft 520 m
on the southwest side
Average
1,450 ft 445 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Erie County spans about 500 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 | 1,440 ft440 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,710 ft520 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Average of all land | 1,450 ft445 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Erie County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,542 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 42 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.8931° N, 79.8296° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- French Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 16407 16438
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Concord Township, Erie County1,610 ft
- Bloomfield Township1,460 ft
- Union Township, Erie County1,440 ft
- Amity Township, Erie County1,420 ft
- Canadohta Lake1,410 ft
- Elgin1,390 ft
- LeBoeuf Township1,380 ft
- Lincolnville1,380 ft
- Union City1,300 ft
- Wattsburg1,290 ft
- Mill Village1,210 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania595th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Erie County4th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Eastman Hill1,810 ft
- Pleasant Hill, Crawford County1,630 ft
- Mackey Hill1,610 ft
- Dutch Hill, Crawford County1,570 ft
- Oak Hill, Erie County1,420 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).
- 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.