Prairie Township, LaPorte County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
700 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m690 ft 210 m680 ft 205 m670 ft 205 m660 ft 200 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
Prairie Township, LaPorte County sits at about 670 ft (205 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
670 ft 205 m
most residents: 670–680 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
700 ft 215 m
on the northeast side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Prairie Township, LaPorte County spans about 40 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 | 670 ft205 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 700 ft215 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Airport (OXI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.5 mi east of the township boundaries | 685 ft209 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.0 mi south to north through the middle of Prairie Township, LaPorte County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 215 2024 est.
- Land area
- 24.0 sq mi
- Density
- 9.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3551° N, 86.7667° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kankakee River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Starke County (OXI) 685 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Wanatah730 ft
- Cass Township, LaPorte County720 ft
- Knox710 ft
- Center Township, Starke County710 ft
- Hanna710 ft
- Hanna Township700 ft
- Davis Township690 ft
- Jackson Township, Starke County690 ft
- Dewey Township670 ft
- La Crosse670 ft
- Prairie Township, LaPorte County670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,379th highest of 1,977
- Towns in LaPorte County33rd highest of 42
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Pigeon Roost Hill740 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.