Americus, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
650 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m600 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Americus sits at about 550 ft (170 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
550 ft 170 m
few residents
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the west side
Highest
650 ft 200 m
on the southeast side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Americus spans about 130 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 550 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 650 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 520 ft160 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Americus | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (LAF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 606 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 65 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 279 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5259° N, 86.7581° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Purdue University (LAF) 606 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 47905
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Madison Township, Carroll County690 ft
- Buck Creek660 ft
- Colburn660 ft
- Tippecanoe Township660 ft
- Battle Ground650 ft
- Washington Township, Tippecanoe County640 ft
- Tippecanoe Township, Carroll County630 ft
- Pittsburg590 ft
- Deer Creek Township, Carroll County580 ft
- Delphi570 ft
- Americus550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,718th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Tippecanoe Countylowest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Mound730 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- 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.
- Americus 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.