Union Township, Howard County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
880 ft 270 m870 ft 265 m860 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m830 ft 250 m820 ft 250 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
Union Township, Howard County sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 840–870 ft
Lowest
820 ft 250 m
on the northwest side
Highest
880 ft 270 m
on the east side
Average
850 ft 260 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Howard County spans about 60 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 880 ft270 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 820 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 850 ft260 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.7 mi west to east through the middle of Union Township, Howard County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Howard County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,016 2024 est.
- Land area
- 25.8 sq mi
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4371° N, 85.9140° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wildcat Creek → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Point Isabel880 ft
- Green Township, Grant County870 ft
- Windfall City860 ft
- Wildcat Township860 ft
- Sims Township860 ft
- Sims860 ft
- Union Township, Howard County850 ft
- Jackson Township, Howard County850 ft
- Jerome850 ft
- Liberty Township, Howard County840 ft
- Greentown840 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana554th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Howard County3rd highest of 20
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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 820 ft at 40.4588° N, 85.9446° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.