Brown County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 265 m730 ft 225 m600 ft 185 m540 ft 165 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
Brown County averages about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 540 ft on the southwest side to 1,060 ft on Weed Patch Hill.
Average elevation
760 ft 230 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,060 ft 320 m
on Weed Patch Hill
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Brown County spans about 520 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on Weed Patch Hill (3DEP terrain model; no NGS survey height) | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the southwest side | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
20 mi south to north through Washington Township, Brown County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Indiana, United States
- Population
- 15,650 2024 est.
- Land area
- 312.0 sq mi + 4.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 50 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- Interior Low Plateaus 89%, Central Lowland 11%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Johnson County770 ft
- Brown County760 ft
- Monroe County740 ft
- Morgan County720 ft
- Bartholomew County680 ft
- Jackson County620 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Indiana45th highest of 91
- Counties in the United States1,896th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Weed Patch Hill1,060 ft
- Bearwallow Hill1,030 ft
- Cooks Hill980 ft
- Baughman Hill950 ft
- Maple Hill950 ft
All 7 towns in Brown County by typical elevation
- Cordry Sweetwater Lakes900 ft
- Hamblen Township870 ft
- Jackson Township, Brown County790 ft
- Van Buren Township, Brown County760 ft
- Helmsburg700 ft
- Washington Township, Brown County700 ft
- Nashville670 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- 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.