Buffington Township, PA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,060 ft 630 m1,870 ft 570 m1,780 ft 545 m1,600 ft 485 m1,410 ft 430 m1,320 ft 405 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
Buffington Township sits at about 1,820 ft (555 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
1,820 ft 555 m
most residents: 1,560–1,940 ft
Lowest
1,320 ft 405 m
on the southwest side
Highest
2,060 ft 630 m
on the west side
Average
1,750 ft 535 m
all land inside township boundaries
Buffington Township spans about 740 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 | 1,820 ft555 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 2,060 ft630 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 1,320 ft405 m |
| Airport (JST) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 2,284 ft696 m |
| Average of all land | 1,750 ft535 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.6 mi south to north through the middle of Buffington Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Population
- 1,225 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 40 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5040° N, 78.9694° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- John Murtha Johnstown/Cambria County (JST) 2,284 ft
- ZIP codes 5
- 15748 15765 15929 15957 15961
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Buffington Township1,820 ft
- Pine Township, Indiana County1,810 ft
- Nanty-Glo1,800 ft
- Belsano1,800 ft
- Blacklick Township1,770 ft
- Twin Rocks1,710 ft
- Armagh1,560 ft
- East Wheatfield Township1,530 ft
- Brush Valley Township1,520 ft
- Vintondale1,470 ft
- Seward1,120 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Pennsylvania175th highest of 3,545
- Towns in Indiana County2nd highest of 50
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Martin Hill2,770 ft
- Wills Mountain2,770 ft
- Brush Mountain2,580 ft
- Loop Mountain2,500 ft
- Rays Hill2,440 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. All public domain.