Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
840 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m780 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m680 ft 210 m660 ft 200 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
Lancaster Township, Jefferson County sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 750–810 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
near the middle
Highest
840 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Average
780 ft 240 m
all land inside township boundaries
Lancaster Township, Jefferson County spans about 180 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 840 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 660 ft200 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Lancaster Township, Jefferson County | 720 ft220 m |
| Airport (IMS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.4 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 819 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,467 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8314° N, 85.5186° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Creek → Muscatatuck River → East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Madison Regional (IMS) 819 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Lancaster Township, Jefferson County790 ft
- Dupont790 ft
- Smyrna Township780 ft
- Republican Township740 ft
- Kent710 ft
- Commiskey690 ft
- Lovett Township680 ft
- Graham Township670 ft
- Montgomery Township, Jennings County650 ft
- Paris Crossing640 ft
- Deputy630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana865th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Jefferson County6th highest of 17
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 38.8251° N, 85.5310° 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.