Buffalo Township, Union County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,580 ft 480 m1,290 ft 395 m1,150 ft 350 m870 ft 265 m580 ft 175 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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, Union County sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
560 ft 170 m
most residents: 470–710 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the east side
Highest
1,580 ft 480 m
on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buffalo Township, Union County spans about 1,140 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 | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest edge, below higher ground just outside | 1,580 ft480 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.8 mi south to north through the middle of Buffalo Township, Union County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Union County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 3,571 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 119 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.9659° N, 76.9781° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Valley and Ridge
- Drains to
- Susquehanna River → Atlantic Ocean
- ZIP codes 2
- 17837 17844
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Limestone Township, Union County660 ft
- West Buffalo Township640 ft
- Mifflinburg570 ft
- Buffalo Township, Union County560 ft
- Vicksburg540 ft
- New Berlin540 ft
- Kelly Township530 ft
- East Buffalo Township520 ft
- Linntown490 ft
- West Chillisquaque Township480 ft
- Lewisburg460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania2,703rd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Union County12th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Huckleberry Mountain2,580 ft
- Greenlee Mountain2,420 ft
- The Winehead2,363 ft
- Miller Mountain2,200 ft
- Shamokin Mountain1,100 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.