Buffalo, SC Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m590 ft 180 m550 ft 170 m490 ft 150 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffalo sits at about 540 ft (165 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
540 ft 165 m
most residents: 520–590 ft
Lowest
400 ft 120 m
on the south side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the north side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Buffalo spans about 250 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 | 540 ft165 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 400 ft120 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffalo | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (35A) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.3 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 610 ft186 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Union County, South Carolina, United States
- Population
- 1,288 2020 Census
- Land area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Density
- 320 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.7257° N, 81.6834° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Piedmont
- Drains to
- Broad River → Santee River → Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Union County, Troy Shelton Field (35A) 610 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 29321
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pauline730 ft
- Pacolet720 ft
- Central Pacolet720 ft
- Glenn Springs700 ft
- Cross Anchor670 ft
- Jonesville660 ft
- Union580 ft
- Monarch Mill560 ft
- Buffalo540 ft
- Carlisle470 ft
- Lockhart460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in South Carolina167th highest of 475
- Towns in Union County4th highest of 6
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Beddington Mountain790 ft
- Crab Apple Hill750 ft
- Hayes Hill750 ft
- Camp Hill740 ft
- Wofford Mountain710 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.
- Buffalo 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.