Clay Township, Spencer County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
620 ft 190 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m480 ft 145 m420 ft 130 m390 ft 120 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Clay Township, Spencer County sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 440–510 ft
Lowest
390 ft 120 m
on the southeast side
Highest
620 ft 190 m
on the southwest side
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside township boundaries
Clay Township, Spencer County spans about 230 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 390 ft120 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.2 mi west to east through the middle of Clay Township, Spencer County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Spencer County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 2,943 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.4 sq mi + 0.8 sq mi water
- Density
- 81 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.0964° N, 86.9378° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Mariah Hill530 ft
- Harrison Township, Spencer County510 ft
- Santa Claus490 ft
- Clay Township, Spencer County490 ft
- Carter Township460 ft
- Chrisney460 ft
- Dale460 ft
- Newtonville440 ft
- Gentryville440 ft
- Huff Township440 ft
- Jackson Township, Spencer County440 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,842nd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Spencer County5th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Coal Knobs640 ft
- Fisher Knobs640 ft
- Ikel Hill580 ft
- Flint Hill580 ft
- Nix Hill570 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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); BTS time zones. All public domain.