Buffalo, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m810 ft 245 m790 ft 240 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffalo sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 800–870 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the southwest side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buffalo spans about 140 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 790 ft240 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffalo | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (CDI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 799 ft244 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.7 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Guernsey County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 373 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 761 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9159° N, 81.5201° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Wills Creek → Muskingum River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Cambridge Municipal (CDI) 799 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 43722
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Seneca Township, Noble County1,100 ft
- Wayne Township, Noble County970 ft
- Buffalo Township940 ft
- Richland Township, Guernsey County920 ft
- Senecaville890 ft
- Jackson Township, Guernsey County850 ft
- Valley Township, Guernsey County850 ft
- Buffalo850 ft
- Lore City830 ft
- Pleasant City830 ft
- Byesville830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,598th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Guernsey County26th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beatty Knob1,260 ft
- High Hill, Noble County1,220 ft
- Coffee Knob1,170 ft
- Browns Knob1,160 ft
- Devils Knob1,110 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).
- 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, 790 ft at 39.9138° N, 81.5249° 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.
- 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.