Elma Center, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m700 ft 210 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
Elma Center 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: 760–880 ft
Lowest
700 ft 210 m
on the northwest side
Highest
960 ft 290 m
on the south side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Elma Center spans about 260 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 south side | 960 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 700 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elma Center | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.4 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 2,851 2020 Census
- Land area
- 6.3 sq mi
- Density
- 454 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8298° N, 78.6361° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Buffalo Niagara International (BUF) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 14059
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Billington Heights940 ft
- Aurora930 ft
- East Aurora910 ft
- Marilla910 ft
- Orchard Park840 ft
- Elma820 ft
- Elma Center790 ft
- Town Line780 ft
- Lancaster690 ft
- Village of Lancaster680 ft
- Depew670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York821st highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County23rd highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- East Hill, Erie County1,670 ft
- Vermont Hill1,600 ft
- 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 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.
- Elma Center 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.