Buffalo Springs Lake, TX Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,140 ft 960 m3,100 ft 945 m3,070 ft 935 m3,030 ft 920 m2,980 ft 910 m2,950 ft 900 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.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Buffalo Springs Lake sits at about 3,110 ft (945 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
3,110 ft 945 m
most residents: 3,040–3,130 ft
Lowest
2,950 ft 900 m
on the east side
Highest
3,140 ft 960 m
on the west side
Average
3,090 ft 945 m
all land inside village limits
Buffalo Springs Lake spans about 190 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 | 3,110 ft945 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 3,140 ft960 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the east side | 2,950 ft900 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Buffalo Springs Lake | 3,020 ft920 m |
| Airport (LBB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi northwest of the village limits | 3,282 ft1,000 m |
| Average of all land | 3,090 ft945 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.2 mi west to east through the town center.
Altitude Effects
What 3,110 ft means day to day, worked out from the typical elevation.
Water boils at
206.2 °F96.8 °C
vs 212 °F at sea level; USDA: food takes longer to cook.
Air pressure
89% of sea level
26.7 inHg (90.4 kPa): each breath holds 11% less air.
Oxygen equivalent
18.7% at sea level
Air is still 21% oxygen, just thinner. Normal at the coast: 20.9%.
Sunburn
+6% more UV
EPA: UV rises about 2% for every 1,000 ft.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Lubbock County, Texas, United States
- Population
- 449 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 294 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.5320° N, 101.7082° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Great Plains
- Drains to
- North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River → Double Mountain Fork Brazos River → Brazos River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Lubbock Preston Smith International (LBB) 3,282 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 79404
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wolfforth3,310 ft
- Shallowater3,310 ft
- New Deal3,290 ft
- Lubbock3,240 ft
- New Home3,230 ft
- Idalou3,190 ft
- Lorenzo3,170 ft
- Wilson3,120 ft
- Ransom Canyon3,110 ft
- Buffalo Springs Lake3,110 ft
- Slaton3,080 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Texas125th highest of 1,861
- Towns in Lubbock County7th highest of 8
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village 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 village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 2,950 ft at 33.5326° N, 101.6929° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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).
- Altitude effects: standard-atmosphere formulas applied to the typical elevation; UV from EPA's rule of thumb (about 2% per 1,000 ft).
- 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.