Carbon, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

710 ft 215 m700 ft 215 m700 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 210 m680 ft 205 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Carbon sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

690 ft 210 m

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

680 ft 205 m

on the southwest side

Highest

690 ft 210 m

on the west side

Average

690 ft 210 m

all land inside town limits

Carbon is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	690 ft210 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side	690 ft210 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side	680 ft205 m
Average of all land	690 ft210 m

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Clay County, Indiana, United States
Population: 258 2024 est.
Land area: 0.1 sq mi
Density: 1,732 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.5990° N, 87.1075° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 47837

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,301st highest of 1,977
Towns in Clay Countyhighest of 26

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Bald Hill, Putnam County870 ft
Keiser Hill, Owen County800 ft
Drake Hill690 ft
Vinegar Hill670 ft
Cromwell Hill660 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.