Prairieton, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

490 ft 150 m480 ft 145 m480 ft 145 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m460 ft 140 m

Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
Area: Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).

Elevation Data

Prairieton sits at about 480 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

480 ft 145 m

nearly all residents at this height

Lowest

460 ft 140 m

on the northwest side

Highest

490 ft 150 m

on the north side

Average

480 ft 145 m

all land inside the CDP boundary

Prairieton spans about 30 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	480 ft145 m
Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side	490 ft150 m
Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the northwest side	460 ft140 m
Town center USGS map point for Prairieton	480 ft145 m
Average of all land	480 ft145 m

Topographic Map

Location: Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Vigo County, Indiana, United States
Population: 268 2020 Census
Land area: 0.5 sq mi
Density: 562 per sq mi
Coordinates: 39.3700° N, 87.4745° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: 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

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana1,852nd highest of 1,977
Towns in Vigo County26th highest of 30

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Yaw Hill690 ft
Sanford Hill680 ft
Trimmer Hill620 ft
Fairbanks Mound540 ft
Big Knoll470 ft

How we measure

Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (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.
Prairieton is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas); BTS time zones. All public domain.