Buffalo, TX Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

460 ft 140 m420 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m360 ft 110 m310 ft 95 m290 ft 90 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Buffalo sits at about 370 ft (115 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

370 ft 115 m

most residents: 340–390 ft

Lowest

290 ft 90 m

on the north side

Highest

460 ft 140 m

on the southwest side

Average

370 ft 110 m

all land inside city limits

Buffalo spans about 170 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	370 ft115 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	460 ft140 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side	290 ft90 m
Town center USGS map point for Buffalo	380 ft115 m
Average of all land	370 ft110 m

Elevation profile, west to east

3.4 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Leon County, Texas, United States
Population: 1,892 2024 est.
Land area: 4.7 sq mi
Density: 402 per sq mi
Coordinates: 31.4638° N, 96.0580° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Coastal Plain
Drains to: Buffalo Creek → Trinity River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 75831

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Teague500 ft
Jewett490 ft
Fairfield470 ft
Hilltop Lakes460 ft
Groesbeck460 ft
Kirvin460 ft
Marquez410 ft
Buffalo370 ft
Leona340 ft
Centerville330 ft
Oakwood280 ft

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Texas1,141st highest of 1,861
Towns in Leon County5th highest of 8

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Burleson Hill608 ft
Folsom Hills570 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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.