LaPorte County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m860 ft 260 m810 ft 250 m720 ft 220 m630 ft 190 m580 ft 175 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
LaPorte County averages about 730 ft (225 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 580 ft on the northwest side to 950 ft on the north side.
Average elevation
730 ft 225 m
all land inside the county
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on the north side
Lowest
580 ft 175 m
on the northwest side
LaPorte County spans about 370 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 730 ft225 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the north side | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northwest side | 580 ft175 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
21 mi west to east through Michigan City.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Indiana, United States
- Population
- 111,348 2024 est.
- Land area
- 598.3 sq mi + 15.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 186 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Gulf of America 75%, Great Lakes 21%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- St. Joseph County770 ft
- LaPorte County730 ft
- Starke County700 ft
- Porter County700 ft
- Berrien County, MI690 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Indiana51st highest of 91
- Counties in the United States1,964th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Baldy720 ft
All 42 towns in LaPorte County by typical elevation
- Rolling Prairie820 ft
- Center Township, LaPorte County810 ft
- Scipio Township810 ft
- La Porte810 ft
- Saugany Lake800 ft
- Kankakee Township800 ft
- Wills Township800 ft
- New Durham Township790 ft
- Westville790 ft
- Hudson Township790 ft
- Hudson Lake780 ft
- Pleasant Township, LaPorte County770 ft
- Galena Township750 ft
- Clinton Township, LaPorte County750 ft
- Kingsbury750 ft
- Wellsboro750 ft
- Washington Township, LaPorte County740 ft
- Union Mills740 ft
- Noble Township, LaPorte County740 ft
- Wanatah730 ft
- Stillwell730 ft
- Kingsford Heights720 ft
- Cass Township, LaPorte County720 ft
- Union Township, LaPorte County720 ft
- Hanna710 ft
- Hanna Township700 ft
- South Center700 ft
- Lincoln Township, LaPorte County700 ft
- Fish Lake700 ft
- Johnson Township, LaPorte County690 ft
- Dewey Township670 ft
- La Crosse670 ft
- Prairie Township, LaPorte County670 ft
- Springfield Township, LaPorte County670 ft
- Coolspring Township640 ft
- Trail Creek630 ft
- Duneland Beach630 ft
- Michigan City620 ft
- Michigan Township620 ft
- Long Beach620 ft
- Pottawattamie Park620 ft
- Michiana Shores610 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- 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 (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 (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.