Polk Township, Monroe County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
900 ft 275 m810 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m680 ft 205 m590 ft 180 m540 ft 165 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
Polk Township, Monroe County sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 600–780 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the north side
Highest
900 ft 275 m
on the east side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside township boundaries
Polk Township, Monroe County spans about 360 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 900 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
7.7 mi west to east through the middle of Polk Township, Monroe County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Monroe County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 281 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.2 sq mi + 4.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 8.2 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0209° N, 86.4175° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → 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
- Pleasant Run Township710 ft
- Polk Township, Monroe County710 ft
- Judah690 ft
- Salt Creek Township680 ft
- Heltonville670 ft
- Shawswick Township670 ft
- Harrodsburg660 ft
- Clear Creek Township660 ft
- Smithville-Sanders640 ft
- Marshall Township630 ft
- Needmore630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,204th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Monroe County11th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Browning Hill930 ft
- Bucker Knob890 ft
- Jimmy Sexton Hill800 ft
- Wilkerson Hill780 ft
- Depot Hill720 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).
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.