Bedford, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m680 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m580 ft 175 m510 ft 155 m480 ft 145 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Bedford sits at about 680 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 205 m
most residents: 630–710 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the southwest side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the north side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Bedford spans about 270 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 | 680 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bedford | 680 ft210 m |
| Airport (BFR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.5 mi southeast of the city limits | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 13,853 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.2 sq mi
- Density
- 1,135 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8612° N, 86.4872° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Virgil I Grissom Municipal (BFR) 727 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 47421
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Judah690 ft
- Marion Township680 ft
- Bedford680 ft
- Heltonville670 ft
- Shawswick Township670 ft
- Avoca660 ft
- Indian Creek Township630 ft
- Marshall Township630 ft
- Needmore630 ft
- Oolitic570 ft
- East Oolitic530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,368th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Lawrence County7th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sally Hill920 ft
- Rariden Hill909 ft
- Mall Hill870 ft
- Red Hill840 ft
- Haystack Rocks810 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.