Palmyra Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
610 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m440 ft 135 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Palmyra Township sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 480–540 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southeast side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the south side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Palmyra Township spans about 170 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 440 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Palmyra Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Knox County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,478 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.5 sq mi
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6884° N, 87.4204° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Ragsdale570 ft
- Bruceville520 ft
- Monroe City520 ft
- Palmyra Township510 ft
- Harrison Township, Knox County510 ft
- Washington Township, Knox County500 ft
- Wheatland490 ft
- Steen Township490 ft
- Emison470 ft
- Vincennes Township420 ft
- Vincennes420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,798th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Knox County6th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Barefoot Nation Hills620 ft
- Scudder Hill570 ft
- Wolf Hill520 ft
- Bunker Hill, Knox County490 ft
- Toms Hill490 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).
- 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.