Elevation of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States of America

Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States of America is 211 m (692 ft) above sea level.

Buffalo Grove's height from sea level is 211 metres, or 692 feet. GeoNames reads 210 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

197 m – 231 m

Mean 211 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 34 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 42

among the towns of Illinois, and 342nd of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Palatine

8.6 km to the SW, at 232 m, 21 m higher.

Cross-section through Buffalo Grove

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Buffalo Grove; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 265 m at 13 km west to 213 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 216 m at 13 km north to 212 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Buffalo Grove, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Buffalo Grove

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Palatine	8.6 km	SW	232 m (761 ft)	+21 m
Arlington Heights	8.8 km	S	216 m (709 ft)	+5 m
Mount Prospect	11.3 km	S	206 m (676 ft)	−5 m
Des Plaines	16.2 km	SE	197 m (646 ft)	−14 m
Hoffman Estates	17.5 km	SW	246 m (807 ft)	+35 m

Where Buffalo Grove is

Latitude 42.1662831, longitude -87.9631308. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Buffalo Grove's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 210 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.