Clay County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

790 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m680 ft 210 m610 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
County area: Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Clay County averages about 610 ft (185 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 510 ft on the south side to 790 ft on the north side.

Average elevation

610 ft 185 m

all land inside the county

Highest

790 ft 240 m

on the north side

Lowest

510 ft 155 m

on the south side

Clay County spans about 280 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.

Figure	Elevation
Average of all land	610 ft185 m
Highest point Inside the county, on the north side	790 ft240 m
Lowest point Inside the county, on the south side	510 ft155 m

Elevation profile, south to north

30 mi south to north through Brazil Township.

Topographic Map

Location: County in Indiana, United States
Population: 26,424 2024 est.
Land area: 357.6 sq mi + 2.7 sq mi water
Density: 74 per sq mi
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Gulf of America

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average

Putnam County790 ft
Owen County680 ft
Parke County640 ft
Clay County610 ft
Greene County590 ft
Vigo County540 ft
Sullivan County510 ft

Rankings by average elevation

Counties in Indiana76th highest of 91
Counties in the United States2,198th highest of 3,151

Peaks and hills highest inside

Drake Hill690 ft
Vinegar Hill670 ft
Cromwell Hill660 ft

All 26 towns in Clay County by typical elevation

How we measure

Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.