Jefferson Township, Jay County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 320 m1,020 ft 310 m1,000 ft 305 m970 ft 295 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 280 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Jefferson Township, Jay County sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
980 ft 300 m
most residents: 940–1,010 ft
Lowest
910 ft 280 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,060 ft 320 m
on the northwest side
Average
980 ft 300 m
all land inside township boundaries
Jefferson Township, Jay County spans about 150 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 | 980 ft300 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 910 ft280 m |
| Airport (PLD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.1 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 925 ft282 m |
| Average of all land | 980 ft300 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Jefferson Township, Jay County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jay County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 684 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi
- Density
- 19 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3504° N, 85.0745° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississinewa River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Portland Municipal (PLD) 925 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ridgeville990 ft
- Franklin Township, Randolph County990 ft
- Jefferson Township, Jay County980 ft
- Pike Township, Jay County980 ft
- Redkey960 ft
- Fairview960 ft
- Green Township, Randolph County960 ft
- Richland Township, Jay County950 ft
- Dunkirk950 ft
- Knox Township910 ft
- Greene Township, Jay County900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana145th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Jay Countyhighest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Hills940 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).
- 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.