Buena Vista, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,030 ft 315 m960 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m850 ft 260 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 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
Buena Vista sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 750–790 ft
Lowest
730 ft 225 m
on the east side
Highest
1,030 ft 315 m
on the west side
Average
830 ft 250 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buena Vista spans about 300 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 730 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buena Vista | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (FWQ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.5 mi south of the CDP boundary | 1,228 ft374 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 128 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 684 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.2773° N, 79.7992° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rostraver (FWQ) 1,228 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elizabeth Township1,080 ft
- Sewickley Township1,030 ft
- Greenock930 ft
- Blaine Hill910 ft
- Sutersville880 ft
- Versailles850 ft
- South Versailles Township770 ft
- Coulter770 ft
- Boston770 ft
- Industry, Allegheny County760 ft
- Buena Vista760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,220th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Allegheny County148th highest of 155
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sheppler Hill1,411 ft
- Rich Hill, Fayette County1,380 ft
- Pollocks Knob1,350 ft
- Bald Hill, Westmoreland County1,320 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Fayette County1,230 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).
- 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.
- Buena Vista 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.