Portland, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

940 ft 285 m930 ft 285 m920 ft 280 m910 ft 275 m900 ft 275 m890 ft 270 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

Portland sits at about 910 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

910 ft 280 m

most residents: 910–920 ft

Lowest

890 ft 270 m

on the southwest side

Highest

940 ft 285 m

on the north side

Average

910 ft 280 m

all land inside city limits

Portland spans about 50 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	910 ft280 m
Highest point Inside city limits, on the north side	940 ft285 m
Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side	890 ft270 m
Town center USGS map point for Portland	910 ft275 m
Airport (PLD) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways	925 ft282 m
Average of all land	910 ft280 m

Elevation profile, south to north

2.8 mi south to north through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: City in Jay County, Indiana, United States
Population: 6,233 2024 est.
Land area: 4.9 sq mi
Density: 1,279 per sq mi
Coordinates: 40.4345° N, 84.9777° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Salamonie River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
Airport: Portland Municipal (PLD) 925 ft
ZIP codes 1: 47371

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana313th highest of 1,977
Towns in Jay County10th highest of 18

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Twin Hills940 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.