Shelby Township, Jefferson County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m860 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m690 ft 210 m580 ft 175 m520 ft 160 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
Shelby Township, Jefferson County sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 770–920 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the southeast side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the northeast side
Average
840 ft 255 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shelby Township, Jefferson County spans about 450 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 520 ft160 m |
| Average of all land | 840 ft255 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the middle of Shelby Township, Jefferson County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,118 2024 est.
- Land area
- 48.3 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 23 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.8667° N, 85.2863° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cross Plains960 ft
- Canaan950 ft
- Brown Township, Ripley County940 ft
- Shelby Township, Ripley County920 ft
- Pleasant Township, Switzerland County890 ft
- Monroe Township, Jefferson County880 ft
- Shelby Township, Jefferson County850 ft
- Madison850 ft
- Madison Township850 ft
- Milton Township630 ft
- Brooksburg470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana543rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Jefferson County3rd highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Hassmer Hill960 ft
- Potato Bug Hill930 ft
- Mulford Hill920 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.