Montpelier, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Montpelier sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 860–880 ft
Lowest
840 ft 255 m
on the north side
Highest
890 ft 275 m
on the southwest side
Average
880 ft 265 m
all land inside city limits
Montpelier spans about 50 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 890 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 840 ft255 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Montpelier | 870 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 880 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.9 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Blackford County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,502 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.5 sq mi
- Density
- 1,003 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.5539° N, 85.2775° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Salamonie River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 47359
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Blackford County890 ft
- Penn Township, Jay County880 ft
- Roll880 ft
- Harrison Township, Blackford County870 ft
- Montpelier870 ft
- Keystone860 ft
- Chester Township, Wells County860 ft
- Petroleum860 ft
- Nottingham Township860 ft
- Poneto850 ft
- Jackson Township, Wells County850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana445th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Blackford Countylowest of 9
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Hills940 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city 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.