Lancaster, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 250 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 225 m700 ft 215 m660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 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
Lancaster sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 670–730 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
810 ft 250 m
on the northeast side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside town boundaries
Lancaster spans about 170 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside town boundaries, on the northeast side | 810 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside town boundaries, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lancaster | 670 ft205 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi northwest of the town boundaries | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 45,303 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.7 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,201 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9006° N, 78.6703° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Buffalo Niagara International (BUF) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 14004 14026 14043 14086 14221
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elma820 ft
- Elma Center790 ft
- Town Line780 ft
- Harris Hill710 ft
- Lancaster690 ft
- Village of Lancaster680 ft
- Depew670 ft
- Williamsville670 ft
- Cheektowaga660 ft
- Clarence640 ft
- Sloan620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York907th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County29th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Frost Hill2,270 ft
- Orr Hill, Wyoming County1,630 ft
- Poland Hill1,530 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 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, 630 ft at 42.8990° N, 78.6937° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.