Erie County, OH Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

890 ft 270 m800 ft 245 m760 ft 230 m670 ft 205 m580 ft 175 m530 ft 160 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Erie County averages about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 530 ft on the southwest side to 890 ft on the southeast side.

Average elevation

670 ft 205 m

all land inside the county

Highest

890 ft 270 m

on the southeast side

Lowest

530 ft 160 m

on the southwest side

Erie County spans about 360 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	670 ft205 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the southeast side	890 ft270 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side	530 ft160 m

Elevation profile, south to north

28 mi south to north through Sandusky.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Ohio, United States
Population: 73,841 2024 est.
Land area: 251.3 sq mi + 374.5 sq mi water
Density: 294 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland 99%
Drains to: Great Lakes

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Huron County890 ft
Lorain County790 ft
Erie County670 ft
Sandusky County650 ft
Ottawa County590 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Ohio85th highest of 88
Counties in the United States2,085th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

North Milan Hill670 ft

All 24 towns in Erie County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.