Mount Vernon, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

480 ft 145 m450 ft 135 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 120 m370 ft 110 m350 ft 105 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Mount Vernon sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

400 ft 120 m

most residents: 380–440 ft

Lowest

350 ft 105 m

on the east side

Highest

480 ft 145 m

on the west side

Average

400 ft 120 m

all land inside city limits

Mount Vernon 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	400 ft120 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the west side	480 ft145 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the east side	350 ft105 m
Town center USGS map point for Mount Vernon	400 ft120 m
Average of all land	400 ft120 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.7 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Posey County, Indiana, United States
Population: 6,341 2024 est.
Land area: 2.9 sq mi
Density: 2,203 per sq mi
Coordinates: 37.9323° N, 87.8950° W
Time zone: Central UTC−6 / −5
Landform region: Interior Low Plateaus
Drains to: Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 47620

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,961st highest of 1,977
Towns in Posey County14th highest of 20

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Aldrich Mound372 ft
Thompson Mound360 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.