Buffalo Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,330 ft 405 m1,180 ft 360 m1,110 ft 340 m970 ft 295 m820 ft 250 m750 ft 230 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffalo Township sits at about 1,160 ft (355 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,160 ft 355 m
most residents: 1,030–1,240 ft
Lowest
750 ft 230 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,330 ft 405 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buffalo Township spans about 580 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 | 1,160 ft355 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 1,330 ft405 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 750 ft230 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.9 mi west to east through the middle of Buffalo Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 8,185 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.1 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 339 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7067° N, 79.7374° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 2
- 16055 16229
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Winfield Township1,310 ft
- Saxonburg1,280 ft
- Clinton Township, Butler County1,220 ft
- South Buffalo Township1,190 ft
- Buffalo Township1,160 ft
- Fawn Township, Allegheny County1,080 ft
- Schenley1,080 ft
- Natrona Heights990 ft
- Harrison Township990 ft
- Freeport790 ft
- Natrona760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,179th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Butler County55th highest of 71
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Peach Hill1,530 ft
- Rich Hill, Allegheny County1,270 ft
- Whiskey Hollow Hill1,250 ft
- Gault Hill1,220 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.