Cates, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m640 ft 195 m630 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m620 ft 190 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Cates sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

640 ft 195 m

few residents

Lowest

620 ft 190 m

on the northwest side

Highest

650 ft 200 m

on the south side

Average

640 ft 195 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Cates spans about 30 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	640 ft195 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side	650 ft200 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	620 ft190 m
Town center USGS map point for Cates	640 ft195 m
Average of all land	640 ft195 m

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Fountain County, Indiana, United States
Population: 24 2020 Census
Land area: 0.2 sq mi
Density: 120 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.9967° N, 87.3378° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,492nd highest of 1,977
Towns in Fountain County14th highest of 23

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Truax Hill820 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.
Cates 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.