Posey Township, Switzerland County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
890 ft 275 m780 ft 240 m730 ft 220 m620 ft 190 m510 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Posey Township, Switzerland County sits at about 690 ft (210 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
690 ft 210 m
most residents: 480–800 ft
Lowest
450 ft 140 m
on the south side
Highest
890 ft 275 m
near the middle
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Posey Township, Switzerland County spans about 440 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 | 690 ft210 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, near the middle | 890 ft275 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 450 ft140 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.9 mi west to east through the middle of Posey Township, Switzerland County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Switzerland County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,604 2024 est.
- Land area
- 39.2 sq mi + 1.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 41 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8502° N, 84.8498° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- East Enterprise890 ft
- Cotton Township870 ft
- Cass Township, Ohio County860 ft
- York Township, Switzerland County740 ft
- Rabbit Hash, KY730 ft
- Posey Township, Switzerland County690 ft
- Randolph Township520 ft
- Rising Sun510 ft
- Warsaw, KY490 ft
- Florence480 ft
- Patriot480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,277th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Switzerland County6th highest of 11
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Potato Bug Hill930 ft
- Henschen Hill860 ft
- Powell Hill840 ft
- Wade Hill820 ft
- Cobb Hill690 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.