Marion Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
920 ft 280 m810 ft 245 m750 ft 230 m650 ft 195 m540 ft 165 m480 ft 145 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
Marion Township sits at about 680 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
680 ft 205 m
most residents: 610–740 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the northwest side
Highest
920 ft 280 m
on the west side
Average
660 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Marion Township spans about 440 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 | 680 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 920 ft280 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 480 ft145 m |
| Airport (BFR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi north of the township boundaries | 727 ft222 m |
| Average of all land | 660 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.2 mi west to east through the middle of Marion Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lawrence County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 8,897 2024 est.
- Land area
- 66.3 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 134 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7501° N, 86.4782° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Virgil I Grissom Municipal (BFR) 727 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bono Township680 ft
- Mitchell680 ft
- Marion Township680 ft
- Bedford680 ft
- Guthrie Township660 ft
- Orleans Township640 ft
- Spice Valley Township640 ft
- Orleans630 ft
- Lawrenceport630 ft
- Orangeville Township620 ft
- Tunnelton560 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,359th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Lawrence County6th highest of 21
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sally Hill920 ft
- Rariden Hill909 ft
- Gobblers Knob900 ft
- Luke Knob830 ft
- Tom Rice Hill780 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, 470 ft at 38.7515° N, 86.4437° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.