Sullivan, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m520 ft 155 m490 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Sullivan sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 490–530 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the south side
Highest
550 ft 170 m
on the east side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Sullivan spans about 90 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 550 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the south side | 460 ft140 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Sullivan | 530 ft160 m |
| Airport (SIV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.7 mi northwest of the city limits | 539 ft164 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
2.7 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 4,240 2024 est.
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 2,188 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.0953° N, 87.4059° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Sullivan County (SIV) 539 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 47882
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Dugger590 ft
- Cass580 ft
- Cass Township, Sullivan County570 ft
- Shelburn540 ft
- Paxton520 ft
- Sullivan520 ft
- Turman Township510 ft
- Hamilton Township, Sullivan County510 ft
- New Lebanon510 ft
- Gill Township500 ft
- Haddon Township480 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,774th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Sullivan County16th highest of 22
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Yaw Hill690 ft
- Ladd Hill630 ft
- Fairbanks Mound540 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.