South Amherst, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m760 ft 230 m740 ft 225 m730 ft 220 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Amherst sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 760–790 ft
Lowest
730 ft 220 m
on the northeast side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the northwest side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside village limits
South Amherst spans about 90 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the northwest side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the northeast side | 730 ft220 m |
| Town center USGS map point for South Amherst | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (LPR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.4 mi east of the village limits | 793 ft242 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Lorain County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 1,566 2024 est.
- Land area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Density
- 647 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3559° N, 82.2538° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Lorain County Regional (LPR) 793 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 44001
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Kipton860 ft
- Henrietta Township820 ft
- Oberlin810 ft
- New Russia Township790 ft
- Birmingham780 ft
- South Amherst780 ft
- Elyria Township750 ft
- Amherst Township730 ft
- Amherst680 ft
- Brownhelm Township640 ft
- Vermilion610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,902nd highest of 2,572
- Towns in Lorain County22nd highest of 36
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.