Shelby Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 185 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Shelby Township 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: 610–710 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
770 ft 235 m
on the north side
Average
690 ft 210 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shelby Township spans about 270 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, on the north side | 770 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Airport (LAF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.3 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 606 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 690 ft210 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
10 mi south to north through the middle of Shelby Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 2,542 2024 est.
- Land area
- 53.5 sq mi + 0.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 47 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4628° N, 87.0352° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Purdue University (LAF) 606 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bolivar Township710 ft
- Otterbein710 ft
- Montmorenci690 ft
- Shelby Township690 ft
- Medina Township680 ft
- Wabash Township670 ft
- West Point670 ft
- Green Hill650 ft
- Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County650 ft
- West Lafayette630 ft
- Shadeland620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,319th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Tippecanoe County8th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Nebo, Benton County820 ft
- Mount Gilboa810 ft
- Hog Back Hill740 ft
- The Mound730 ft
- Copeland Hill680 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.