Madison Township, St. Joseph County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m890 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m840 ft 255 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 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
Madison Township, St. Joseph County 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: 820–850 ft
Lowest
790 ft 240 m
on the northeast side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the southwest side
Average
830 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
Madison Township, St. Joseph County spans about 130 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, on the southwest side | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 790 ft240 m |
| Airport (SBN) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 798 ft243 m |
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.4 mi south to north through the middle of Madison Township, St. Joseph County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,792 2024 est.
- Land area
- 52.1 sq mi
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.5430° N, 86.1279° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Yellow River → Kankakee River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- South Bend International (SBN) 798 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Locke Township870 ft
- Centre Township850 ft
- Wakarusa850 ft
- Union Township, St. Joseph County840 ft
- Lakeville840 ft
- Olive Township, Elkhart County840 ft
- Bremen840 ft
- Madison Township, St. Joseph County830 ft
- Wyatt830 ft
- Gilmer Park830 ft
- German Township, Marshall County830 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana651st highest of 1,977
- Towns in St. Joseph County4th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Buzzard Hill1,050 ft
- Vargo Hill890 ft
- Reeves Hill880 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).
- 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, 790 ft at 41.5743° N, 86.0607° 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.