Petersburg, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

560 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m510 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m440 ft 135 m420 ft 130 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

Petersburg sits at about 460 ft (140 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

460 ft 140 m

most residents: 440–500 ft

Lowest

420 ft 130 m

on the west side

Highest

560 ft 170 m

on the east side

Average

470 ft 145 m

all land inside city limits

Petersburg spans about 140 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	460 ft140 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side	560 ft170 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side	420 ft130 m
Town center USGS map point for Petersburg	480 ft145 m
Average of all land	470 ft145 m

Elevation profile, west to east

1.7 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Pike County, Indiana, United States
Population: 2,269 2024 est.
Land area: 1.6 sq mi
Density: 1,434 per sq mi
Coordinates: 38.4920° N, 87.2786° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
ZIP codes 1: 47567

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,900th highest of 1,977
Towns in Pike County17th highest of 18

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Sefert Hill662 ft
Kennedy Hill620 ft
Moore Hill, Gibson County590 ft
Turkey Hill, Pike County560 ft
Toms Hill490 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.