Driftwood Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
870 ft 265 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 225 m640 ft 195 m550 ft 170 m500 ft 155 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
Driftwood Township sits at about 570 ft (175 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
570 ft 175 m
most residents: 530–680 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the south side
Highest
870 ft 265 m
on the southeast side
Average
570 ft 175 m
all land inside township boundaries
Driftwood Township spans about 370 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 | 570 ft175 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 870 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 500 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 570 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Driftwood Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jackson County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 956 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.9 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8189° N, 86.0952° 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
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Owen Township820 ft
- Monroe Township, Washington County750 ft
- Jefferson Township, Washington County740 ft
- Freetown650 ft
- Brownstown Township610 ft
- Brownstown610 ft
- Driftwood Township570 ft
- Grassy Fork Township550 ft
- Vallonia540 ft
- Carr Township, Jackson County530 ft
- Medora530 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,689th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Jackson County14th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pinnacle950 ft
- Johnson Knob, Washington County900 ft
- Johnson Knob, Washington County850 ft
- Potato Knob800 ft
- Tunnel Hill, Lawrence County740 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.