Brown Township, Ripley County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m910 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m750 ft 230 m640 ft 195 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Brown Township, Ripley County sits at about 940 ft (285 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
940 ft 285 m
most residents: 790–980 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the east side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the northwest side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
Brown Township, Ripley County spans about 420 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 | 940 ft285 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 590 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
9.1 mi west to east through the middle of Brown Township, Ripley County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ripley County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,728 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 32 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9718° N, 85.2041° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Elrod980 ft
- Washington Township, Ripley County970 ft
- Johnson Township, Ripley County970 ft
- Versailles970 ft
- Cross Plains960 ft
- Brown Township, Ripley County940 ft
- Shelby Township, Ripley County920 ft
- Pleasant Township, Switzerland County890 ft
- Clay Township, Dearborn County860 ft
- Caesar Creek Township840 ft
- Pike Township, Ohio County810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana235th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Ripley County21st highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Round Hill1,000 ft
- Hassmer Hill960 ft
- Potato Bug Hill930 ft
- Mulford Hill920 ft
- Cobb Hill690 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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, 590 ft at 38.9501° N, 85.1332° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.