Richland Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,000 ft 305 m890 ft 270 m840 ft 255 m740 ft 225 m640 ft 195 m590 ft 180 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.
- Township area
- Fades everything outside the official township boundaries (US Census).
Elevation Data
Richland Township sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 730–850 ft
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Highest
1,000 ft 305 m
on the south side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside township boundaries
Richland Township spans about 410 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 1,000 ft305 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
| Airport (BMG) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.3 mi south of the township boundaries | 846 ft258 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Richland Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Monroe County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 15,309 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.4 sq mi
- Density
- 432 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.2178° N, 86.6141° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Monroe County (BMG) 846 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Van Buren Township840 ft
- Bloomington Township810 ft
- Bloomington800 ft
- Richland Township790 ft
- Perry Township, Monroe County770 ft
- Ellettsville760 ft
- Washington Township, Monroe County720 ft
- Clay Township, Owen County700 ft
- Bean Blossom Township700 ft
- Washington Township, Owen County620 ft
- Stinesville610 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana873rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Monroe County5th highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Jimmy Sexton Hill800 ft
- Straley Hill780 ft
- Pike Hill770 ft
- Taylor Hill, Owen County720 ft
- Arganbright Hill670 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.