Shelby Township, Ripley County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
980 ft 295 m910 ft 280 m880 ft 270 m810 ft 250 m750 ft 230 m720 ft 220 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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, Ripley County sits at about 920 ft (280 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
920 ft 280 m
most residents: 890–950 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the southeast side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the east side
Average
900 ft 275 m
all land inside township boundaries
Shelby Township, Ripley County spans about 250 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 | 920 ft280 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Average of all land | 900 ft275 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
8.0 mi west to east through the middle of Shelby Township, Ripley County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Ripley County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 999 2024 est.
- Land area
- 69.1 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.9795° N, 85.3479° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Creek → Muscatatuck River → East Fork White River → White River → 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
- Johnson Township, Ripley County970 ft
- Versailles970 ft
- Cross Plains960 ft
- Canaan950 ft
- Brown Township, Ripley County940 ft
- Shelby Township, Ripley County920 ft
- New Marion910 ft
- Otter Creek Township, Ripley County910 ft
- Holton910 ft
- Monroe Township, Jefferson County880 ft
- Shelby Township, Jefferson County850 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana278th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Ripley County22nd highest of 25
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Round Hill1,000 ft
- 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.