Lafayette Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 305 m900 ft 275 m840 ft 255 m740 ft 225 m630 ft 190 m570 ft 175 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
Lafayette Township sits at about 890 ft (270 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
890 ft 270 m
most residents: 790–920 ft
Lowest
570 ft 175 m
on the southeast side
Highest
1,010 ft 305 m
on the northeast side
Average
860 ft 265 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lafayette Township spans about 440 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 | 890 ft270 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,010 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 570 ft175 m |
| Airport (SDF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 12 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 501 ft153 m |
| Average of all land | 860 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the middle of Lafayette Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Floyd County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 8,447 2024 est.
- Land area
- 26.0 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 324 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.3469° N, 85.8884° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Indian Creek → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International (SDF) 501 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Floyds Knobs900 ft
- Lafayette Township890 ft
- Georgetown Township820 ft
- Greenville800 ft
- Greenville Township800 ft
- Georgetown780 ft
- Galena770 ft
- Carr Township540 ft
- Silver Creek Township490 ft
- New Albany Township480 ft
- New Albany470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana389th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Floyd County2nd highest of 10
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Bald Knob, Floyd County1,010 ft
- Spickert Knob960 ft
- Lost Knob950 ft
- Pine Hill770 ft
- Saint Joseph Hill600 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.