Boston, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
1,150 ft 350 m1,140 ft 350 m1,140 ft 345 m1,130 ft 345 m1,120 ft 340 m1,120 ft 340 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Boston sits at about 1,130 ft (345 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside town limits (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
1,130 ft 345 m
few residents
Lowest
1,120 ft 340 m
on the west side
Highest
1,140 ft 345 m
on the southeast side
Average
1,130 ft 345 m
all land inside town limits
Boston is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 20 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 1,140 ft345 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side | 1,120 ft340 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Boston | 1,130 ft345 m |
| Airport (RID) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi northeast of the town limits | 1,140 ft347 m |
| Average of all land | 1,130 ft345 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wayne County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 152 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 700 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.7412° N, 84.8519° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Fork Whitewater River → Whitewater River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Richmond Municipal (RID) 1,140 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 47324
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jackson Township, Preble County, OH1,160 ft
- Boston1,130 ft
- Dixon Township, OH1,100 ft
- Harrison Township, Union County1,080 ft
- Boston Township1,080 ft
- Abington Township1,010 ft
- Center Township, Union County1,010 ft
- Wayne Township, Wayne County1,000 ft
- Richmond1,000 ft
- Spring Grove980 ft
- Abington860 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana13th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Wayne County5th highest of 32
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the town limits; 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 town 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.