Columbus Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m650 ft 200 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Columbus Township 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
590 ft 180 m
on the south side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the southwest side
Average
640 ft 195 m
all land inside township boundaries
Columbus Township spans about 160 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 township boundaries, on the southwest side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Columbus Township | 630 ft190 m |
| Airport (BAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.1 mi north of the township boundaries | 656 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 640 ft195 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 52,695 2024 est.
- Land area
- 55.0 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 957 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
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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 Indiana1,502nd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Bartholomew County22nd highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Taylor Hill, Bartholomew County1,020 ft
- Patterson Hill990 ft
- Dowell Hill960 ft
- Knob Hill, Brown County950 ft
- Guffy Hill950 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.