Buffalo, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m680 ft 210 m680 ft 205 m670 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m650 ft 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffalo sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 650–690 ft
Lowest
650 ft 200 m
near the middle
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on the east side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buffalo spans about 40 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, near the middle | 650 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffalo | 670 ft205 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in White County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 619 2020 Census
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 261 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.8825° N, 86.7453° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Tippecanoe River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 47925 47960
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lincoln Township, White County700 ft
- Cass Township, White County690 ft
- Beaver Township, Pulaski County690 ft
- Indian Creek Township, Pulaski County690 ft
- Pulaski690 ft
- Union Township, White County680 ft
- Monon680 ft
- Monon Township680 ft
- Norway670 ft
- Liberty Township, White County670 ft
- Buffalo670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,394th highest of 1,977
- Towns in White Countylowest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bunker Hill, Pulaski County760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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, 650 ft at 40.8874° N, 86.7438° 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.
- Buffalo is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.