Cortland, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m580 ft 175 m580 ft 175 m570 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Cortland sits at about 560 ft (170 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
560 ft 170 m
few residents
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the south side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on the northeast side
Average
560 ft 170 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Cortland is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 560 ft170 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 560 ft170 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Cortland | 570 ft170 m |
| Airport (SER) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi southeast of the CDP boundary | 583 ft178 m |
| Average of all land | 560 ft170 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Jackson County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 62 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.7 sq mi
- Density
- 83 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9731° N, 85.9641° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Freeman Municipal (SER) 583 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jackson Township, Bartholomew County630 ft
- Rockford620 ft
- Brownstown Township610 ft
- Brownstown610 ft
- Redding Township610 ft
- Jonesville590 ft
- Seymour590 ft
- Jackson Township590 ft
- Hamilton Township, Jackson County580 ft
- Washington Township, Jackson County570 ft
- Cortland560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,694th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Jackson County15th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pinnacle950 ft
- Gilmore Hill940 ft
- Cherry Hill750 ft
- Dug Hill, Bartholomew County700 ft
- Wrights Hill660 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (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.
- Cortland is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.