Monroe City, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
530 ft 160 m520 ft 160 m520 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m500 ft 155 m500 ft 150 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Monroe City sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 510–520 ft
Lowest
500 ft 150 m
on the southeast side
Highest
530 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Average
520 ft 160 m
all land inside town limits
Monroe City spans about 30 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 530 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southeast side | 500 ft150 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Monroe City | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 520 ft160 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Knox County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 489 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.3 sq mi
- Density
- 1,818 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6153° N, 87.3545° 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 1
- 47557
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ragsdale570 ft
- Monroe City520 ft
- Palmyra Township510 ft
- Harrison Township, Knox County510 ft
- Washington Township, Daviess County510 ft
- Wheatland490 ft
- Steen Township490 ft
- Madison Township, Pike County480 ft
- Washington Township, Pike County470 ft
- Petersburg460 ft
- Johnson Township, Knox County460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,771st highest of 1,977
- Towns in Knox County4th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sefert Hill662 ft
- Barefoot Nation Hills620 ft
- Harbstreit Hill580 ft
- Bunker Hill, Knox County490 ft
- Toms Hill490 ft
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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.