Lancaster Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 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
Lancaster Township sits at about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
830 ft 255 m
most residents: 810–860 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Highest
880 ft 265 m
near the middle
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lancaster Township spans about 140 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 | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 880 ft265 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (FWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 10 mi north of the township boundaries | 815 ft248 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.9 mi west to east through the middle of Lancaster Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Wells County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 6,218 2024 est.
- Land area
- 47.6 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 131 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7658° N, 85.1623° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Fort Wayne International (FWA) 815 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Craigville850 ft
- Liberty Township, Wells County850 ft
- Tocsin840 ft
- Lancaster Township830 ft
- Kirkland Township830 ft
- Jefferson Township, Wells County830 ft
- Harrison Township, Wells County830 ft
- Bluffton830 ft
- Vera Cruz820 ft
- Rockcreek Township810 ft
- Uniondale810 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana644th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Wells County11th highest of 20
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, 640 ft at 40.7701° N, 85.1810° 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.