Wampum, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,060 ft 325 m1,010 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m790 ft 240 m740 ft 225 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
Wampum sits at about 780 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 240 m
most residents: 770–880 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the southwest side
Average
880 ft 270 m
all land inside borough limits
Wampum spans about 430 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 | 780 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the southwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the southeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Wampum | 780 ft235 m |
| Airport (BVI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.7 mi south of the borough limits | 1,253 ft382 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft270 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.8 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 542 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Density
- 550 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8881° N, 80.3381° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Beaver County (BVI) 1,253 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16157
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Big Beaver1,140 ft
- Wayne Township, Lawrence County1,080 ft
- New Beaver960 ft
- Ellwood City930 ft
- Koppel920 ft
- Frisco920 ft
- Chewton900 ft
- Ellport890 ft
- Taylor Township, Lawrence County890 ft
- West Pittsburg880 ft
- Wampum780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,179th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Lawrence Countylowest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Fletcher Hill1,330 ft
- Turkey Hill, Lawrence County1,330 ft
- Steffens Hill1,290 ft
- Fridays Hill1,260 ft
- Booth Hill1,180 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.