Erie County, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,940 ft 590 m1,600 ft 485 m1,430 ft 435 m1,080 ft 330 m740 ft 225 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Erie County averages about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 560 ft on the north side to 1,940 ft on the southeast side.
Average elevation
940 ft 285 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,940 ft 590 m
on the southeast side
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the north side
Erie County spans about 1,380 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side | 1,940 ft590 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
40 mi south to north through Buffalo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in New York, United States
- Population
- 950,602 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1,042.8 sq mi + 184.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 912 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 67%, Appalachian Plateaus 33%
- Drains to
- Great Lakes
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Cattaraugus County1,720 ft
- Wyoming County1,500 ft
- Chautauqua County1,400 ft
- Erie County940 ft
- Genesee County850 ft
- Niagara County460 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in New York30th highest of 62
- Counties in the United States1,517th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- South Hill, Erie County1,770 ft
- Townsend Hill1,750 ft
- East Hill, Erie County1,670 ft
- Crow Hill, Erie County1,640 ft
- Vermont Hill1,600 ft
All 58 towns in Erie County by typical elevation
- Sardinia1,450 ft
- Colden1,440 ft
- Concord1,370 ft
- Springville1,350 ft
- Holland1,310 ft
- Wales1,130 ft
- North Collins1,030 ft
- Boston960 ft
- Billington Heights940 ft
- Aurora930 ft
- East Aurora910 ft
- Marilla910 ft
- Collins890 ft
- Village of Orchard Park860 ft
- Village of Alden860 ft
- North Boston860 ft
- Orchard Park840 ft
- Eden840 ft
- Village of North Collins840 ft
- Alden820 ft
- Elma820 ft
- Village of Hamburg810 ft
- Elma Center790 ft
- Town Line780 ft
- Gowanda partly770 ft
- Hamburg720 ft
- Akron710 ft
- Newstead710 ft
- Harris Hill710 ft
- Lancaster690 ft
- Brant690 ft
- Angola680 ft
- Village of Lancaster680 ft
- Highland-on-the-Lake680 ft
- Depew670 ft
- Williamsville670 ft
- Cheektowaga660 ft
- Evans660 ft
- Clarence Center640 ft
- West Seneca640 ft
- Clarence640 ft
- Farnham630 ft
- Buffalo620 ft
- Sloan620 ft
- Wanakah620 ft
- Eggertsville610 ft
- Kenmore610 ft
- Blasdell600 ft
- Angola on the Lake600 ft
- Tonawanda600 ft
- Tonawanda Town600 ft
- Lake Erie Beach600 ft
- Lackawanna600 ft
- Amherst600 ft
- Grandyle Village590 ft
- Grand Island590 ft
- University at Buffalo580 ft
- City of Tonawanda580 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 520 ft at 42.8974° N, 78.7454° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.