Terre Haute, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
590 ft 180 m560 ft 170 m540 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m470 ft 145 m450 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Terre Haute sits at about 490 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
490 ft 150 m
most residents: 490–550 ft
Lowest
450 ft 135 m
on the southwest side
Highest
590 ft 180 m
on the east side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside city limits
Terre Haute 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 | 490 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the east side | 590 ft180 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 450 ft135 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Terre Haute | 500 ft155 m |
| Airport (HUF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 589 ft180 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
4.6 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Vigo County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 58,531 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.8 sq mi + 0.4 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,683 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4667° N, 87.4139° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Terre Haute Regional (HUF) 589 ft
- ZIP codes 6
- 47802 47803 47804 47805 47807 47809
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- St. Mary of the Woods570 ft
- Lost Creek Township570 ft
- Sugar Creek Township, Vigo County520 ft
- Otter Creek Township510 ft
- North Terre Haute500 ft
- Honey Creek Township500 ft
- Terre Haute490 ft
- Harrison Township490 ft
- Toad Hop470 ft
- West Terre Haute470 ft
- Dresser470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,830th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Vigo County24th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Yaw Hill690 ft
- Sanford Hill680 ft
- Trimmer Hill620 ft
- Pottsville Hill600 ft
- Big Knoll470 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.