Vandergrift, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,290 ft 395 m1,160 ft 355 m1,100 ft 335 m970 ft 295 m840 ft 255 m770 ft 235 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
Vandergrift sits at about 960 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
960 ft 290 m
most residents: 880–1,070 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the west side
Highest
1,290 ft 395 m
on the southwest side
Average
960 ft 290 m
all land inside borough limits
Vandergrift spans about 520 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 | 960 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,290 ft395 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the west side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vandergrift | 880 ft270 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft290 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,955 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,641 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.6028° N, 79.5648° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 15690
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Orchard Hills1,160 ft
- Oklahoma1,010 ft
- Parks Township980 ft
- Vandergrift960 ft
- Pleasant View910 ft
- North Apollo890 ft
- Kiskimere880 ft
- Apollo850 ft
- Borough of Hyde Park820 ft
- East Vandergrift800 ft
- North Vandergrift800 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,831st highest of 3,545
- Towns in Westmoreland County74th highest of 86
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Watts Hill, Indiana County1,600 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Locust Knob1,260 ft
- Whiskey Hollow Hill1,250 ft
- Gault Hill1,220 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.