Pierce Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 300 m890 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m760 ft 230 m680 ft 205 m630 ft 195 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
Pierce Township sits at about 780 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
780 ft 235 m
most residents: 700–860 ft
Lowest
630 ft 195 m
on the southwest side
Highest
980 ft 300 m
on the north side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Pierce Township spans about 350 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 | 780 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 980 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 630 ft195 m |
| Airport (I83) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi northwest of the township boundaries | 840 ft256 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Pierce Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Washington County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 2,517 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.6 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 71 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5130° N, 86.0560° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Blue River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Salem Municipal (I83) 840 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Martinsburg890 ft
- Canton850 ft
- Polk Township, Washington County820 ft
- Washington Township, Washington County810 ft
- Jackson Township, Washington County800 ft
- Salem800 ft
- Pierce Township780 ft
- Howard Township, Washington County760 ft
- Wood Township750 ft
- New Pekin740 ft
- Borden570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana923rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Washington County14th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Williams Knob960 ft
- Daisy Hill940 ft
- Bowers Knob910 ft
- Blue River Mound860 ft
- Moore Hill, Harrison County750 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 630 ft at 38.4724° N, 86.1176° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.