Tonawanda Town, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
720 ft 220 m680 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m580 ft 180 m560 ft 170 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Tonawanda Town sits at about 600 ft (185 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
600 ft 185 m
most residents: 570–620 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the north side
Highest
720 ft 220 m
on the west side
Average
600 ft 180 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Tonawanda Town spans about 160 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 ft185 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 720 ft220 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.9 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 600 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the middle of Tonawanda Town.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 57,431 2020 Census
- Land area
- 17.3 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,320 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.9844° N, 78.8509° 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
- 14150 14207 14217 14223
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Williamsville670 ft
- Eggertsville610 ft
- Kenmore610 ft
- Tonawanda600 ft
- Tonawanda Town600 ft
- Amherst600 ft
- Grandyle Village590 ft
- Grand Island590 ft
- University at Buffalo580 ft
- City of Tonawanda580 ft
- North Tonawanda580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,034th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County50th highest of 57
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- 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.
- Tonawanda Town 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. All public domain.