Fairbanks Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Fairbanks Township sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 490–550 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
600 ft 185 m
on the north side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Fairbanks 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 600 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairbanks Township | 550 ft170 m |
| Airport (SIV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.0 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 714 2024 est.
- Land area
- 41.0 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 17 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2195° N, 87.5222° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sullivan County (SIV) 539 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Graysville560 ft
- Fairbanks550 ft
- Curry Township540 ft
- Shelburn540 ft
- Prairie Creek530 ft
- Prairie Creek Township520 ft
- Darwin Township, IL520 ft
- Fairbanks Township520 ft
- Turman Township510 ft
- West Union, IL480 ft
- York Township, Clark County, IL460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,769th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Sullivan County15th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Yaw Hill690 ft
- Sanford Hill680 ft
- Ladd Hill630 ft
- Fairbanks Mound540 ft
- Big Knoll470 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 430 ft at 39.1740° N, 87.6137° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.