Fort Wayne, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

890 ft 275 m850 ft 260 m830 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m730 ft 225 m

Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
City area: Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Fort Wayne sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

800 ft 245 m

most residents: 770–830 ft

Lowest

730 ft 225 m

on the southeast side

Highest

890 ft 275 m

on the west side

Average

800 ft 245 m

all land inside city limits

Fort Wayne 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	800 ft245 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	890 ft275 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southeast side	730 ft225 m
Town center USGS map point for Fort Wayne	810 ft245 m
Airport (FWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	815 ft248 m
Average of all land	800 ft245 m

Elevation profile, west to east

12 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Allen County, Indiana, United States
Population: 273,203 2024 est.
Land area: 111.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
Density: 2,445 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.1306° N, 85.1289° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Maumee River
Airport: Fort Wayne International (FWA) 815 ft
ZIP codes 17: 46774 46802 46803 46804 46805 46806 46807 46808 46809 46814 46815 46816 46818 46819 46825 46835 46845

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana843rd highest of 1,977
Towns in Allen County17th highest of 33

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.