Shelbyville, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m740 ft 225 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Shelbyville sits at about 770 ft (235 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
770 ft 235 m
most residents: 760–790 ft
Lowest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Highest
820 ft 250 m
on the east side
Average
780 ft 235 m
all land inside city limits
Shelbyville spans about 80 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 | 770 ft235 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 820 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Shelbyville | 760 ft230 m |
| Airport (GEZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 803 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 780 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.0 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Shelby County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 20,845 2024 est.
- Land area
- 13.8 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,510 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5214° N, 85.7769° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Shelbyville Municipal (GEZ) 803 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 46176
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Union Township, Shelby County860 ft
- Liberty Township, Shelby County830 ft
- Waldron820 ft
- Marion Township, Shelby County800 ft
- Marion, Shelby County790 ft
- Brandywine Township, Shelby County780 ft
- Fairland770 ft
- Addison Township770 ft
- Shelbyville770 ft
- Shelby Township, Shelby County770 ft
- Hendricks Township730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana955th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Shelby County20th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Kelly Hill860 ft
- Hog Back850 ft
- McFarren Hill850 ft
- McCrea Hill820 ft
- Money Hill800 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, 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 city limits (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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.