Union Township, Tippecanoe County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
750 ft 230 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 180 m540 ft 165 m510 ft 155 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
Union Township, Tippecanoe County sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 600–720 ft
Lowest
510 ft 155 m
on the northwest side
Highest
750 ft 230 m
on the south side
Average
650 ft 200 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Tippecanoe County spans about 240 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 750 ft230 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 510 ft155 m |
| Airport (LAF) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi north of the township boundaries | 606 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 650 ft200 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.4 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Tippecanoe County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,839 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.1 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 68 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3639° N, 86.9445° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Purdue University (LAF) 606 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County740 ft
- Jackson Township, Tippecanoe County730 ft
- Wabash Township670 ft
- West Point670 ft
- Fairfield Township650 ft
- Lafayette650 ft
- Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County650 ft
- Wea Township650 ft
- West Lafayette630 ft
- Shadeland620 ft
- Union Township, Tippecanoe County620 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,560th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Tippecanoe County25th highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- The Mound730 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.