Bloomington, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m720 ft 220 m630 ft 190 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Bloomington sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 740–850 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the north side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Bloomington spans about 340 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Bloomington | 770 ft235 m |
| Airport (BMG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.5 mi west of the city limits | 846 ft258 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Monroe County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 79,986 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.2 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,440 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1653° N, 86.5264° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Clear Creek → East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Monroe County (BMG) 846 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 47401 47403 47404 47405 47406 47408
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Van Buren Township840 ft
- Bloomington Township810 ft
- Bloomington800 ft
- Richland Township790 ft
- Perry Township, Monroe County770 ft
- Ellettsville760 ft
- Benton Township740 ft
- Washington Township, Monroe County720 ft
- Salt Creek Township680 ft
- Clear Creek Township660 ft
- Smithville-Sanders640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana833rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Monroe County3rd highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bucker Knob890 ft
- Bald Knob, Monroe County890 ft
- Jimmy Sexton Hill800 ft
- High King Hill790 ft
- Pike Hill770 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. All public domain.