Buffalo, ND Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,230 ft 375 m1,220 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 m1,210 ft 370 m1,200 ft 365 m1,190 ft 365 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Buffalo sits at about 1,210 ft (365 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,210 ft 365 m
most residents: 1,200–1,210 ft
Lowest
1,190 ft 365 m
on the west side
Highest
1,210 ft 370 m
on the east side
Average
1,200 ft 365 m
all land inside city limits
Buffalo is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 1,210 ft365 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 1,190 ft365 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffalo | 1,210 ft370 m |
| Average of all land | 1,200 ft365 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cass County, North Dakota, United States
- Population
- 189 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 393 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 46.9197° N, 97.5495° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Maple River → Red River → Canada
- ZIP codes 1
- 58011
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Oriska Township1,210 ft
- Buffalo1,210 ft
- Ayr1,200 ft
- Ayr Township1,200 ft
- Tower City1,170 ft
- Cornell Township1,160 ft
- Tower Township1,160 ft
- Hill Township1,160 ft
- Buffalo Township1,150 ft
- Howes Township1,100 ft
- Gill Township990 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in North Dakota1,390th highest of 1,711
- Towns in Cass Countyhighest of 79
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); BTS time zones. All public domain.