Lackawanna, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m570 ft 175 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Lackawanna 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: 580–620 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the west side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside city limits
Lackawanna spans about 70 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 city limits, on the southwest side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 570 ft175 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lackawanna | 620 ft190 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northeast of the city limits | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 19,629 2024 est.
- Land area
- 6.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,998 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.8256° N, 78.8234° 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
- 14218
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Village of Orchard Park860 ft
- Orchard Park840 ft
- Village of Hamburg810 ft
- Hamburg720 ft
- Cheektowaga660 ft
- West Seneca640 ft
- Buffalo620 ft
- Sloan620 ft
- Wanakah620 ft
- Blasdell600 ft
- Lackawanna600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,042nd highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County52nd highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- East Hill, Erie County1,670 ft
- Blanchard Hill, Erie County1,580 ft
- Rice Hill, Erie County1,530 ft
- West Hill, Erie County760 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.