University Heights, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,120 ft 340 m1,080 ft 330 m1,060 ft 325 m1,020 ft 310 m980 ft 300 m960 ft 295 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
University Heights sits at about 1,050 ft (320 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,050 ft 320 m
most residents: 1,010–1,090 ft
Lowest
960 ft 295 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,040 ft 320 m
all land inside city limits
University Heights spans about 160 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 | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the northwest side | 960 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for University Heights | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Airport (CGF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.6 mi northeast of the city limits | 876 ft267 m |
| Average of all land | 1,040 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 13,265 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Density
- 7,265 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4978° N, 81.5373° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Niagara River
- Airport
- Cuyahoga County (CGF) 876 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 44118
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Woodmere1,160 ft
- Beachwood1,110 ft
- Pepper Pike1,080 ft
- Highland Hills1,050 ft
- University Heights1,050 ft
- Lyndhurst1,040 ft
- Shaker Heights1,030 ft
- South Euclid970 ft
- Cleveland Heights900 ft
- Richmond Heights860 ft
- East Cleveland700 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio567th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Cuyahoga County10th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- McConougheys Hill1,310 ft
- Piersons Knob1,200 ft
- Orange Hill1,190 ft
- Gildersleeve Mountain1,160 ft
- Waite Hill780 ft
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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.