Prospect, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m730 ft 225 m690 ft 210 m600 ft 185 m520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Prospect sits at about 510 ft (155 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
510 ft 155 m
most residents: 480–550 ft
Lowest
480 ft 145 m
on the east side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the north side
Average
540 ft 165 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Prospect spans about 340 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 | 510 ft155 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 480 ft145 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Prospect | 490 ft150 m |
| Airport (FRH) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi south of the CDP boundary | 792 ft241 m |
| Average of all land | 540 ft165 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Orange County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 60 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 69 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.5781° N, 86.6142° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Lost River → East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- French Lick Municipal (FRH) 792 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Jackson Township, Orange County680 ft
- Paoli Township660 ft
- Paoli630 ft
- Columbia Township, Dubois County630 ft
- French Lick Township630 ft
- Orangeville Township620 ft
- Northwest Township610 ft
- West Baden Springs600 ft
- Lost River Township570 ft
- French Lick570 ft
- Prospect510 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,799th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Orange Countylowest of 15
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Airie900 ft
- Gobblers Knob900 ft
- Luke Knob830 ft
- Goss Hill790 ft
- Tom Rice Hill780 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.
- Prospect 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.