Burns City, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m670 ft 205 m620 ft 190 m570 ft 175 m550 ft 165 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Burns City sits at about 680 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 210 m
most residents: 670–700 ft
Lowest
550 ft 165 m
on the southwest side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the southeast side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Burns City spans about 190 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 | 680 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 550 ft165 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Burns City | 710 ft215 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.5 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Martin County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 114 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 155 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8225° N, 86.8869° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 47553
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Burns City680 ft
- Scotland610 ft
- Taylor Township, Greene County600 ft
- Crane600 ft
- Raglesville600 ft
- Madison Township, Daviess County560 ft
- Dover Hill560 ft
- Perry Township, Martin County550 ft
- Odon540 ft
- Mitcheltree Township540 ft
- Van Buren Township, Daviess County530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,335th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Martin Countyhighest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buck Knob760 ft
- Gobbler Knob740 ft
- Jolliff Rocks700 ft
- Sand Hill, Greene County640 ft
- Maumee Hill630 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Burns City is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.