Aurora, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,470 ft 450 m1,300 ft 395 m1,210 ft 370 m1,030 ft 315 m850 ft 260 m770 ft 235 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
Aurora sits at about 930 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
930 ft 285 m
most residents: 900–1,140 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,470 ft 450 m
on the south side
Average
1,040 ft 315 m
all land inside town boundaries
Aurora spans about 700 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 | 930 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the south side | 1,470 ft450 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the northwest side | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi north of the town boundaries | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Aurora.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 13,902 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi
- Density
- 382 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.7575° N, 78.6310° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Buffalo Niagara International (BUF) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 4
- 14052 14127 14139 14170
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colden1,440 ft
- Wales1,130 ft
- Billington Heights940 ft
- Aurora930 ft
- East Aurora910 ft
- Marilla910 ft
- Village of Orchard Park860 ft
- North Boston860 ft
- Orchard Park840 ft
- Elma820 ft
- Elma Center790 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York675th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County10th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- East Hill, Erie County1,670 ft
- Crow Hill, Erie County1,640 ft
- Vermont Hill1,600 ft
- Blanchard Hill, Erie County1,580 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).
- 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.