Penntown, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

1,000 ft 305 m990 ft 300 m980 ft 300 m960 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m940 ft 285 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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Penntown sits at about 980 ft (300 m) above sea level, the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary (too few residents to weight by).

Typical elevation (all land)

980 ft 300 m

few residents

Lowest

940 ft 285 m

on the northeast side

Highest

1,000 ft 305 m

on the east side

Average

980 ft 300 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Penntown spans about 60 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 (all land) Median of all land; too few residents to weight by	980 ft300 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side	1,000 ft305 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northeast side	940 ft285 m
Town center USGS map point for Penntown	990 ft300 m
Average of all land	980 ft300 m

Elevation profile, west to east

0.7 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Ripley County, Indiana, United States
Population: 66 2020 Census
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 120 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.2701° N, 85.0975° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Whitewater 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

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana136th highest of 1,977
Towns in Ripley County7th highest of 25

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Gobblers Knob Hill1,010 ft
South Gate Hill1,000 ft
Long Hollow Hill1,000 ft
Round Hill1,000 ft
Wee Wee Hill990 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the median height of all land inside the CDP boundary; too few residents live here to weight by people.
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.
Penntown 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.