Jackson Township, Shelby County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m860 ft 265 m830 ft 255 m760 ft 235 m700 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jackson Township, Shelby County sits at about 740 ft (225 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
740 ft 225 m
most residents: 680–850 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the northeast side
Average
730 ft 225 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jackson Township, Shelby County spans about 270 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 | 740 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (BAK) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.0 mi south of the township boundaries | 656 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft225 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Jackson Township, Shelby County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Shelby County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,994 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 58 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3889° N, 85.8966° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Columbus Municipal (BAK) 656 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jackson Township, Shelby County740 ft
- Hendricks Township730 ft
- Washington Township, Shelby County720 ft
- Marietta720 ft
- Flat Rock690 ft
- Amity690 ft
- Blue River Township670 ft
- Edinburgh670 ft
- Flat Rock Township670 ft
- Pleasant View Village660 ft
- Taylorsville650 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,061st highest of 1,977
- Towns in Shelby County24th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Renner Hill930 ft
- Donalds Knoll850 ft
- McFarren Hill850 ft
- McCrea Hill820 ft
- Money Hill800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the township boundaries, 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 township boundaries (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, 660 ft at 39.3485° N, 85.9490° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.