Helmsburg, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m700 ft 215 m680 ft 205 m650 ft 200 m640 ft 195 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Helmsburg sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 650–700 ft
Lowest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the northwest side
Average
680 ft 205 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Helmsburg spans about 100 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Helmsburg | 660 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 680 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Brown County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 195 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.3 sq mi
- Density
- 154 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2653° N, 86.2928° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Beanblossom Creek → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cordry Sweetwater Lakes900 ft
- Hamblen Township870 ft
- Hensley Township820 ft
- Jackson Township, Brown County790 ft
- Painted Hills750 ft
- Benton Township740 ft
- Jackson Township, Morgan County730 ft
- Helmsburg700 ft
- Washington Township, Brown County700 ft
- Morgantown680 ft
- Nashville670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,245th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Brown County5th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bearwallow Hill1,030 ft
- Baker Hill950 ft
- Maple Hill950 ft
- Dug Hill, Brown County950 ft
- Watton Hill800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Helmsburg is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.