Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 250 m790 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m750 ft 230 m730 ft 220 m710 ft 215 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
Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County sits at about 760 ft (230 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
760 ft 230 m
most residents: 730–770 ft
Lowest
710 ft 215 m
on the southwest side
Highest
810 ft 250 m
on the southeast side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside township boundaries
Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County spans about 100 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 | 760 ft230 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 810 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 710 ft215 m |
| Airport (GEZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.8 mi east of the township boundaries | 803 ft245 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.0 mi west to east through the middle of Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Shelby County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,067 2024 est.
- Land area
- 23.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 45 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.5799° N, 85.9137° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sugar Creek → East Fork White River → White River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Shelbyville Municipal (GEZ) 803 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Clark Township800 ft
- Pleasant View800 ft
- Moral Township800 ft
- London780 ft
- Brandywine Township, Shelby County780 ft
- Fairland770 ft
- Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County760 ft
- Boggstown750 ft
- Needham Township740 ft
- Hendricks Township730 ft
- Needham730 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana983rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Shelby County22nd highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Polk Hill, Johnson County870 ft
- Kelly Hill860 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 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.