Washington Township, Fayette County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,310 ft 400 m1,170 ft 355 m1,100 ft 335 m950 ft 290 m810 ft 245 m740 ft 225 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Washington Township, Fayette County sits at about 940 ft (290 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 290 m
most residents: 910–1,100 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the south side
Highest
1,310 ft 400 m
on the east side
Average
1,020 ft 310 m
all land inside township boundaries
Washington Township, Fayette County spans about 570 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 | 940 ft290 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 1,310 ft400 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (FWQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.3 mi north of the township boundaries | 1,228 ft374 m |
| Average of all land | 1,020 ft310 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the middle of Washington Township, Fayette County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,694 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.9 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 372 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1156° N, 79.8339° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rostraver (FWQ) 1,228 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 15012 15438 15473
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Long Branch1,190 ft
- Washington Township, Fayette County940 ft
- Lynnwood-Pricedale940 ft
- Fairhope930 ft
- Arnold City920 ft
- North Belle Vernon920 ft
- Belle Vernon870 ft
- Fayette City850 ft
- Dunlevy790 ft
- Naomi770 ft
- Borough of Allenport770 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,850th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County56th highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Kilndigging Hill1,290 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 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.