Griffith, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
660 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m630 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m600 ft 180 m590 ft 180 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
Griffith sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 610–630 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the north side
Highest
660 ft 200 m
on the southeast side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside town limits
Griffith spans about 70 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 660 ft200 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the north side | 590 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Griffith | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (05C) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 634 ft193 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Lake County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 16,192 2024 est.
- Land area
- 7.8 sq mi
- Density
- 2,084 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5284° N, 87.4236° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Airport
- Griffith-Merrillville (05C) 634 ft
- ZIP codes 2
- 46319 46406
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ross Township660 ft
- Schererville650 ft
- Merrillville650 ft
- Ross630 ft
- Dyer630 ft
- Griffith620 ft
- Highland610 ft
- Munster610 ft
- Calumet Township610 ft
- North Township600 ft
- Hammond600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,568th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Lake County26th highest of 35
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, 590 ft at 41.5646° N, 87.4310° 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 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.