Waterford, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,350 ft 410 m1,300 ft 400 m1,280 ft 390 m1,240 ft 375 m1,190 ft 365 m1,170 ft 355 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
Waterford sits at about 1,210 ft (370 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 370 m
most residents: 1,180–1,260 ft
Lowest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the south side
Highest
1,350 ft 410 m
on the northwest side
Average
1,220 ft 370 m
all land inside borough limits
Waterford spans about 180 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 | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Highest point Inside borough limits, on the northwest side | 1,350 ft410 m |
| Lowest point Inside borough limits, on the south side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Waterford | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Airport (ERI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi northwest of the borough limits | 732 ft223 m |
| Average of all land | 1,220 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,445 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,179 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.9428° N, 79.9845° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- French Creek → Allegheny River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Erie International/Tom Ridge Field (ERI) 732 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 16441
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Erie County1,440 ft
- Amity Township, Erie County1,420 ft
- LeBoeuf Township1,380 ft
- Waterford Township1,350 ft
- Greene Township, Erie County1,330 ft
- Washington Township, Erie County1,310 ft
- Union City1,300 ft
- Summit Township1,240 ft
- Waterford1,210 ft
- Mill Village1,210 ft
- McKean Township1,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,060th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Erie County18th highest of 43
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pleasant Hill, Crawford County1,630 ft
- Mackey Hill1,610 ft
- Gibson Hill1,550 ft
- Mount Pleasant1,510 ft
- Oak Hill, Erie County1,420 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.