Petroleum, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

880 ft 270 m880 ft 265 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 265 m850 ft 260 m850 ft 260 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Petroleum sits at about 860 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

860 ft 260 m

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

850 ft 260 m

on the north side

Highest

860 ft 265 m

on the west side

Average

860 ft 260 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Petroleum 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	860 ft260 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the west side	860 ft265 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side	850 ft260 m
Town center USGS map point for Petroleum	860 ft260 m
Average of all land	860 ft260 m

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Wells County, Indiana, United States
Population: 119 2020 Census
Land area: 0.1 sq mi
Density: 1,451 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.6114° N, 85.1508° 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

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana514th highest of 1,977
Towns in Wells County3rd highest of 20

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Twin Hills940 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.
Petroleum 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.