Fairmount, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 m880 ft 265 m860 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m850 ft 260 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Fairmount sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 860–880 ft
Lowest
850 ft 260 m
on the north side
Highest
890 ft 270 m
on the east side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside town limits
Fairmount spans about 40 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the east side | 890 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 850 ft260 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Fairmount | 870 ft265 m |
| Airport (MZZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi north of the town limits | 859 ft262 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.3 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Grant County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 2,666 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 1,681 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4153° N, 85.6505° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississinewa River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Marion Municipal - Mckinney Field (MZZ) 859 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 46928
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Van Buren Township, Madison County890 ft
- Summitville890 ft
- Boone Township, Madison County890 ft
- Fowlerton880 ft
- Matthews880 ft
- Liberty Township, Grant County880 ft
- Fairmount Township870 ft
- Fairmount870 ft
- Gas City850 ft
- Mill Township850 ft
- Jonesboro850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana463rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Grant County9th highest of 29
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.