Friedens topographic map

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Friedens

Friedens occupies a gently elevated upland setting in Somerset County, within the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania, where the landscape belongs to the broad Appalachian Plateau rather than to a flat lowland plain. The village sits among rounded hills, shallow stream valleys, and open rural slopes, with nearby elevations generally clustered around the low 2,000-foot range, dropping into local drainage corridors near Wells Creek and rising toward higher knobs and ridges around the settlement. Relief is moderate and rolling rather than abrupt: roads and fields follow broad benches and softened hillcrests, while small creeks have carved narrow swales that give the area a subtly dissected texture. In its wider context, Friedens lies in a county known for high plateau country between Laurel Hill and the Allegheny Mountains, with Pennsylvania’s highest elevations nearby, giving the place a distinctly upland Appalachian character marked by cool high ground, agricultural clearings, wooded slopes, and gradual but persistent elevation changes.

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Name: Friedens topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Friedens, Somerset Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 15541, United States (40.02817 -79.03390 40.06019 -78.97272)

Average elevation: 2,162 ft

Minimum elevation: 1,903 ft

Maximum elevation: 2,464 ft

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