West Penn Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,680 ft 515 m1,410 ft 430 m1,270 ft 385 m990 ft 300 m710 ft 215 m570 ft 175 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
West Penn Township sits at about 880 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
880 ft 265 m
most residents: 660–1,070 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the east side
Highest
1,680 ft 515 m
on the northeast side
Average
910 ft 280 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Penn Township spans about 1,110 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 | 880 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,680 ft515 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for West Penn Township | 680 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 910 ft280 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
11 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 4,562 2024 est.
- Land area
- 58.0 sq mi
- Density
- 79 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7409° N, 75.9610° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Schuylkill River → Delaware River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 3
- 17960 18211 18252
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Hometown1,130 ft
- Walker Township, Schuylkill County1,030 ft
- Tuscarora1,010 ft
- Schuylkill Township, Schuylkill County990 ft
- Maryd930 ft
- West Penn Township880 ft
- Tamaqua870 ft
- Brockton790 ft
- East Brunswick Township720 ft
- McKeansburg710 ft
- New Ringgold570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,984th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Schuylkill County56th highest of 110
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Bears Rocks1,560 ft
- Wildcat Mountain1,460 ft
- Mahoning Mountain1,010 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 560 ft at 40.7385° N, 75.7982° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.