NOAA S-57 chart cell

Lake Erie - Outer Harbor and Buffalo River, NY

US5BUFDE

Usage band
Harbor · code 5
Current edition
2.4
Features
1,375
S-57 layers
49
Published
Mar 20, 2026
Manifest updated
Jun 22, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

Coverage

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North
42.90000° N
South
42.82500° N
West
78.90000° W
East
78.82500° W
Center
42.86250° N, 78.86250° W
Bounds area
15 sq nm
Feature density
92.5111 / sq nm

Chart Statistics

20 largest layers shown

Average features per layer
28.1
Smallest layer
1
Largest layer
217
Area sq km
51
Features per sq km
26.97193
  1. SLCONS Shoreline construction 217
  2. PONTON 194
  3. BUISGL 147
  4. DEPARE Depth area 129
  5. DEPCNT Depth contour 103
  6. SILTNK 77
  7. PILPNT 72
  8. DRGARE 58
  9. COALNE Coastline 47
  10. M_QUAL Data quality 46
  11. LIGHTS Light 33
  12. OBSTRN Obstruction 30
  13. MORFAC 26
  14. BRIDGE 21
  15. LNDMRK 16
  16. BOYLAT Lateral buoy 13
  17. CBLSUB 12
  18. CONVYR 12
  19. LNDARE Land area 11
  20. PIPSOL 11

Nearby Chart Cells

Harbor usage band

  1. Lake Erie - Entrance to Niagara River, NY US5BUFDD - about 3 nm away
  2. Lake Erie - Scajaquada Creek and Park Lake, NY US5BUFEE - about 5 nm away
  3. Lake Erie - Niagara River, Chippawa Channel and Tonawanda Channel, NY US5BUFED - about 6 nm away
  4. Lake Erie - Thunder Bay to Bertie Bay, ON - Canada US5BUFDC - about 7 nm away
  5. Niagara River - Chippawa Channel, NY US5BUFEC - about 8 nm away
  6. Niagara River - Tonawanda Channel and Niagara River Channel, NY US5BUFFE - about 9 nm away

Current Edition Files

The NOAA ZIP archive is the upstream source for this chart cell; the other files are Open Ships generated derivatives for web and GIS use.

Editions

Edition Published Metadata
2.4 Mar 20, 2026 metadata.json