Dresser, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 145 m470 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m450 ft 140 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
Dresser sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).
Typical elevation (all land)
470 ft 145 m
few residents
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the southeast side
Highest
480 ft 145 m
on the north side
Average
470 ft 140 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Dresser spans about 30 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 480 ft145 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 450 ft140 m |
| Airport (HUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.1 mi east of the CDP boundary | 589 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft140 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Vigo County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 38 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.2 sq mi
- Density
- 252 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4630° N, 87.4226° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Terre Haute Regional (HUF) 589 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 47885
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- St. Mary of the Woods570 ft
- Lost Creek Township570 ft
- Sugar Creek Township, Vigo County520 ft
- Otter Creek Township510 ft
- North Terre Haute500 ft
- Honey Creek Township500 ft
- Terre Haute490 ft
- Harrison Township490 ft
- Toad Hop470 ft
- West Terre Haute470 ft
- Dresser470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,885th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Vigo Countylowest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Yaw Hill690 ft
- Sanford Hill680 ft
- Trimmer Hill620 ft
- Pottsville Hill600 ft
- Big Knoll470 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.
- Dresser 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.