Buffalo, KY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m740 ft 225 m730 ft 220 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 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 760–810 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the west side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the east side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buffalo spans about 90 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffalo | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Larue County, Kentucky, United States
- Population
- 571 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.2 sq mi
- Density
- 483 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.5120° N, 85.6986° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Nolin River → Green River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 42716
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Magnolia840 ft
- Buffalo790 ft
- Summersville780 ft
- Elizabethtown780 ft
- Hodgenville760 ft
- Upton740 ft
- Sonora720 ft
- Bonnieville660 ft
- Raywick610 ft
- New Hope590 ft
- New Haven480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Kentucky170th highest of 552
- Towns in Larue County2nd highest of 3
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Akin Knob990 ft
- Three Springs Knob960 ft
- Puckett Knob950 ft
- Mount Pisgah820 ft
- Round Knob, Nelson County700 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).
- 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.