Chesterton, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

710 ft 220 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Chesterton sits at about 640 ft (195 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

640 ft 195 m

most residents: 640–650 ft

Lowest

610 ft 185 m

on the north side

Highest

710 ft 220 m

on the south side

Average

650 ft 195 m

all land inside town limits

Chesterton spans about 100 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	640 ft195 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the south side	710 ft220 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side	610 ft185 m
Town center USGS map point for Chesterton	640 ft195 m
Average of all land	650 ft195 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.9 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Porter County, Indiana, United States
Population: 14,655 2024 est.
Land area: 9.4 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
Density: 1,553 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.6106° N, 87.0642° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Central Lowland
ZIP codes 1: 46304

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,491st highest of 1,977
Towns in Porter County21st highest of 31

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Mount Tom, Porter County750 ft
Mount Jackson750 ft
Mount Baldy720 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 and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.