Buffalo Center, IA Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 m1,200 ft 365 m1,190 ft 360 m1,180 ft 360 m1,170 ft 360 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Buffalo Center sits at about 1,190 ft (360 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

1,190 ft 360 m

most residents: 1,180–1,190 ft

Lowest

1,170 ft 360 m

on the west side

Highest

1,210 ft 370 m

on the northeast side

Average

1,190 ft 365 m

all land inside city limits

Buffalo Center 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	1,190 ft360 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side	1,210 ft370 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side	1,170 ft360 m
Town center USGS map point for Buffalo Center	1,190 ft365 m
Average of all land	1,190 ft365 m

Topographic Map

Location: City in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States
Population: 839 2024 est.
Land area: 1.1 sq mi
Density: 783 per sq mi
Coordinates: 43.3858° N, 93.9466° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Blue Earth River → Minnesota River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 50424

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Thompson1,270 ft
Woden1,220 ft
Buffalo Center1,190 ft
Seely Township, MN1,170 ft
Titonka1,160 ft
Rake1,160 ft
Ledyard1,150 ft
Lakota1,140 ft
Rome Township, MN1,120 ft
Elmore, MN1,120 ft
Elmore Township, MN1,110 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Iowa268th highest of 1,026
Towns in Winnebago County6th highest of 7

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.