Buffington, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,130 ft 345 m1,090 ft 330 m1,070 ft 325 m1,030 ft 315 m990 ft 300 m970 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffington sits at about 1,080 ft (330 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,080 ft 330 m
most residents: 1,010–1,120 ft
Lowest
970 ft 295 m
on the west side
Highest
1,130 ft 345 m
on the northeast side
Average
1,050 ft 320 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buffington 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 | 1,080 ft330 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 970 ft295 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffington | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Average of all land | 1,050 ft320 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
0.5 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 298 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,840 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.9290° N, 79.8412° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Monongahela River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 15468
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Menallen Township1,150 ft
- German Township1,120 ft
- Allison1,080 ft
- Buffington1,080 ft
- Nemacolin1,070 ft
- South Uniontown1,070 ft
- New Salem, Fayette County1,060 ft
- Redstone Township1,050 ft
- Edenborn1,040 ft
- Republic1,020 ft
- Smock960 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania1,492nd highest of 3,545
- Towns in Fayette County32nd highest of 66
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Krepp Knob1,350 ft
- Sunshine Hill1,200 ft
- Goodwin Knob1,200 ft
- Locks Hill1,190 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.
- Buffington 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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.