Steele Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
580 ft 175 m540 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m450 ft 140 m440 ft 135 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
Steele Township sits at about 470 ft (145 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
470 ft 145 m
most residents: 450–490 ft
Lowest
440 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
580 ft 175 m
on Harbstreit Hill
Average
460 ft 140 m
all land inside township boundaries
Steele Township spans about 140 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 | 470 ft145 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Harbstreit Hill | 580 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 440 ft135 m |
| Airport (DCY) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.9 mi south of the township boundaries | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 460 ft140 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.0 mi south to north through the middle of Steele Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Daviess County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 917 2024 est.
- Land area
- 42.8 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 21 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.7923° N, 87.1597° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Daviess County (DCY) 472 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Washington Township, Daviess County510 ft
- Edwardsport500 ft
- Bicknell500 ft
- Vigo Township490 ft
- Bogard Township490 ft
- Elmore Township480 ft
- Elnora480 ft
- Sandborn470 ft
- Steele Township470 ft
- Plainville470 ft
- Westphalia460 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,880th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Daviess County17th highest of 18
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Sefert Hill662 ft
- Barefoot Nation Hills620 ft
- Harbstreit Hill580 ft
- Scudder Hill570 ft
- Toms Hill490 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.