University at Buffalo, NY Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m600 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m580 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m560 ft 170 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
University at Buffalo sits at about 580 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
580 ft 175 m
most residents: 580–590 ft
Lowest
570 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the south side
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
University at Buffalo spans about 50 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 | 580 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 570 ft170 m |
| Airport (BUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.5 mi south to north through the middle of University at Buffalo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Erie County, New York, United States
- Population
- 6,798 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 5,036 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 43.0070° N, 78.7925° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Buffalo Niagara International (BUF) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 14260 14261
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harris Hill710 ft
- Williamsville670 ft
- Eggertsville610 ft
- Kenmore610 ft
- Tonawanda600 ft
- Tonawanda Town600 ft
- Amherst600 ft
- Pendleton590 ft
- University at Buffalo580 ft
- City of Tonawanda580 ft
- North Tonawanda580 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in New York1,075th highest of 2,097
- Towns in Erie County56th 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.
- University at Buffalo 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.