Blackford County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
960 ft 290 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Blackford County averages about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 840 ft on the north side to 960 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
900 ft 275 m
all land inside the county
Highest
960 ft 290 m
on the south side
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the north side
Blackford County spans about 120 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 960 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the north side | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
13 mi south to north through Licking Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Indiana, United States
- Population
- 11,816 2024 est.
- Land area
- 165.1 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 72 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Delaware County940 ft
- Jay County930 ft
- Blackford County900 ft
- Grant County860 ft
- Wells County840 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Indiana16th highest of 91
- Counties in the United States1,605th highest of 3,151
All 10 towns in Blackford County by typical elevation
- Dunkirk partly950 ft
- Millgrove930 ft
- Jackson Township, Blackford County920 ft
- Hartford City910 ft
- Licking Township910 ft
- Shamrock Lakes900 ft
- Washington Township, Blackford County890 ft
- Roll880 ft
- Harrison Township, Blackford County870 ft
- Montpelier870 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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, 770 ft at 40.5618° N, 85.2740° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.