Buffalo Township, Washington County, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,450 ft 440 m1,330 ft 405 m1,280 ft 390 m1,160 ft 355 m1,040 ft 320 m980 ft 300 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, Washington County sits at about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
most residents: 1,150–1,330 ft
Lowest
980 ft 300 m
on the west side
Highest
1,450 ft 440 m
on the north side
Average
1,210 ft 370 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buffalo Township, Washington County spans about 470 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 | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,450 ft440 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 980 ft300 m |
| Airport (AFJ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.0 mi east of the township boundaries | 1,184 ft361 m |
| Average of all land | 1,210 ft370 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
3.5 mi west to east through the middle of Buffalo Township, Washington County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,952 2024 est.
- Land area
- 20.4 sq mi
- Density
- 96 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.1517° N, 80.3400° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Washington County (AFJ) 1,184 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 15301 15323
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Buffalo Township, Washington County1,250 ft
- South Franklin Township1,220 ft
- Green Hills1,200 ft
- Claysville1,190 ft
- Taylorstown1,190 ft
- Blaine Township1,190 ft
- North Franklin Township1,180 ft
- Wolfdale1,170 ft
- Hopewell Township, Washington County1,170 ft
- Canton Township1,140 ft
- Washington1,110 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania956th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Washington County4th highest of 103
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Wheeler1,512 ft
- Mosier Hill1,500 ft
- Sampson Hill1,490 ft
- Garrett Hill1,400 ft
- Cemetery Hill, Washington County1,330 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.