Onward, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m780 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m770 ft 235 m760 ft 235 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
Town area: Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).

Elevation Data

Onward sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

770 ft 235 m

most residents: 760–770 ft

Lowest

760 ft 235 m

on the west side

Highest

770 ft 235 m

on the northeast side

Average

770 ft 235 m

all land inside town limits

Onward is nearly flat: its ground varies by only about 10 ft, so the figures below sit close together.

Figure	Elevation
Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower	770 ft235 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side	770 ft235 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the west side	760 ft235 m
Town center USGS map point for Onward	770 ft235 m
Airport (GUS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.7 mi southeast of the town limits	811 ft247 m
Average of all land	770 ft235 m

Topographic Map

Location: Town in Cass County, Indiana, United States
Population: 76 2024 est.
Land area: 0.1 sq mi
Density: 738 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.6948° N, 86.1950° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Grissom Arb (GUS) 811 ft
ZIP codes 1: 46967

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana967th highest of 1,977
Towns in Cass County10th highest of 25

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Morgan Hill820 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.