Lapel, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

880 ft 270 m860 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Lapel sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

860 ft 260 m

most residents: 850–860 ft

Lowest

820 ft 250 m

near the middle

Highest

880 ft 270 m

on the southeast side

Average

860 ft 265 m

all land inside town limits

Lapel spans about 60 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	860 ft260 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side	880 ft270 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, near the middle	820 ft250 m
Town center USGS map point for Lapel	860 ft260 m
Average of all land	860 ft265 m

Elevation profile, south to north

5.2 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Madison County, Indiana, United States
Population: 2,516 2024 est.
Land area: 10.4 sq mi
Density: 243 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.0684° N, 85.8483° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 2: 46051 46064

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana515th highest of 1,977
Towns in Madison County28th highest of 31

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town limits, 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 town limits (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, ZIP code areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.