Amherst, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m560 ft 170 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Amherst sits at about 600 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 180 m
most residents: 580–680 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the northwest side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the east side
Average
600 ft 185 m
all land inside town boundaries
Amherst spans about 160 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 | 600 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the east side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Amherst | 600 ft185 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.4 mi southeast of the town boundaries | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 130,862 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.2 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 2,460 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9756° N, 78.7914° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Buffalo Niagara International (BUF) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 7
- 14051 14068 14221 14226 14228 14260 14261
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Williamsville670 ft
- Cheektowaga660 ft
- Sloan620 ft
- Eggertsville610 ft
- Kenmore610 ft
- Tonawanda600 ft
- Tonawanda Town600 ft
- Amherst600 ft
- University at Buffalo580 ft
- City of Tonawanda580 ft
- North Tonawanda580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,043rd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County53rd highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Hill, Erie County790 ft
- West Hill, Erie County760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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 43.0479° N, 78.8093° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.