French Lick, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

790 ft 240 m710 ft 220 m680 ft 205 m600 ft 180 m520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

French Lick 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: 490–750 ft

Lowest

480 ft 145 m

on the north side

Highest

790 ft 240 m

on the southwest side

Average

590 ft 180 m

all land inside town limits

French Lick spans about 310 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 town limits, on the southwest side	790 ft240 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side	480 ft145 m
Town center USGS map point for French Lick	500 ft155 m
Airport (FRH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.4 mi south of the town limits	792 ft241 m
Average of all land	590 ft180 m

Elevation profile, south to north

1.3 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Orange County, Indiana, United States
Population: 1,753 2024 est.
Land area: 1.8 sq mi
Density: 962 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.5489° N, 86.6200° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Interior Low Plateaus
Drains to: Lost River → East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: French Lick Municipal (FRH) 792 ft
ZIP codes 1: 47432

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

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,672nd highest of 1,977
Towns in Orange County14th highest of 15

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Mount Airie900 ft
Luke Knob830 ft
Goss Hill790 ft
Harbison Hills750 ft
Tillery Hill720 ft

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).
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, 480 ft at 38.5582° N, 86.6196° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.