Canton, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 235 m760 ft 235 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
Canton sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
850 ft 260 m
few residents
Lowest
760 ft 235 m
on the west side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the southeast side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Canton spans about 110 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 760 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Canton | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (I83) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.6 mi west of the CDP boundary | 840 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Washington County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 76 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Density
- 174 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6239° N, 86.0347° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Blue River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Salem Municipal (I83) 840 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Franklin Township, Washington County900 ft
- Canton850 ft
- Polk Township, Washington County820 ft
- Washington Township, Washington County810 ft
- Salem800 ft
- Pierce Township780 ft
- Monroe Township, Washington County750 ft
- New Pekin740 ft
- Gibson Township620 ft
- Finley Township610 ft
- Little York570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana564th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Washington County3rd highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnson Knob, Washington County900 ft
- Blue River Mound860 ft
- Vic Swaim Hill860 ft
- Johnson Knob, Washington County850 ft
- Potato Knob800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; 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 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.
- Canton 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.