Paxton, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Paxton 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: 480–530 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the northwest side
Highest
540 ft 165 m
on the east side
Average
500 ft 155 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Paxton spans about 80 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 the CDP boundary, on the east side | 540 ft165 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Paxton | 520 ft160 m |
| Airport (SIV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.7 mi northwest of the CDP boundary | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 500 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 103 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 185 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0212° N, 87.3886° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sullivan County (SIV) 539 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dugger590 ft
- Cass580 ft
- Cass Township, Sullivan County570 ft
- Jefferson Township, Sullivan County550 ft
- Paxton520 ft
- Sullivan520 ft
- Hamilton Township, Sullivan County510 ft
- New Lebanon510 ft
- Carlisle510 ft
- Gill Township500 ft
- Haddon Township480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,762nd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Sullivan County14th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Ladd Hill630 ft
- Scudder Hill570 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
- Paxton is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.