Columbus, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m620 ft 190 m600 ft 185 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Columbus 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: 620–660 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
near the middle
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside city limits
Columbus spans about 150 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 city limits, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, near the middle | 600 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbus | 630 ft190 m |
| Airport (BAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 656 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 51,970 2024 est.
- Land area
- 30.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,729 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2014° N, 85.9214° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Columbus Municipal (BAK) 656 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 47201 47203
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Harrison Lake720 ft
- Harrison Township, Bartholomew County690 ft
- Petersville660 ft
- Clay Township, Bartholomew County650 ft
- Columbus640 ft
- Columbus Township640 ft
- Wayne Township, Bartholomew County630 ft
- Bethel Village610 ft
- Mineral Springs610 ft
- Walesboro600 ft
- Waynesville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,498th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Bartholomew County21st highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Taylor Hill, Bartholomew County1,020 ft
- Patterson Hill990 ft
- Dowell Hill960 ft
- Guffy Hill950 ft
- Wrights Hill660 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.