Van Buren Township, Brown County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,060 ft 320 m930 ft 285 m860 ft 265 m730 ft 225 m600 ft 185 m540 ft 165 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
Van Buren Township, Brown 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: 640–830 ft
Lowest
540 ft 165 m
on the west side
Highest
1,060 ft 320 m
on Weed Patch Hill
Average
730 ft 220 m
all land inside township boundaries
Van Buren Township, Brown County spans about 520 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 Weed Patch Hill | 1,060 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 540 ft165 m |
| Average of all land | 730 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
12 mi west to east through the middle of Van Buren Township, Brown County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Brown County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,946 2024 est.
- Land area
- 87.2 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 22 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.1061° N, 86.1418° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- East Fork White River → White River → 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
- Van Buren Township, Brown County760 ft
- Grandview Lake730 ft
- Harrison Lake720 ft
- Pershing Township710 ft
- Washington Township, Brown County700 ft
- Harrison Township, Bartholomew County690 ft
- Nashville670 ft
- Salt Creek Township, Jackson County660 ft
- Ohio Township, Bartholomew County660 ft
- Freetown650 ft
- Jackson Township, Bartholomew County630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana994th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Brown County4th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Browning Hill930 ft
- Nickerson Hill870 ft
- Hurley Hill770 ft
- Cherry Hill750 ft
- Kirk Hill720 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.