Vera Cruz, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
850 ft 260 m840 ft 255 m830 ft 255 m820 ft 250 m810 ft 250 m810 ft 245 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Town area
- Fades everything outside the official town limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vera Cruz sits at about 820 ft (250 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
820 ft 250 m
nearly all residents at this height
Lowest
810 ft 245 m
on the southwest side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the northeast side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside town limits
Vera Cruz spans about 40 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 | 820 ft250 m |
| Highest point Inside town limits, on the northeast side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside town limits, on the southwest side | 810 ft245 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vera Cruz | 820 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Town in Wells County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 70 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 693 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.7012° N, 85.0791° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- ZIP codes 1
- 46714
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Petroleum860 ft
- French Township860 ft
- Craigville850 ft
- Hartford Township840 ft
- Lancaster Township830 ft
- Monroe Township, Adams County830 ft
- Linn Grove830 ft
- Kirkland Township830 ft
- Harrison Township, Wells County830 ft
- Bluffton830 ft
- Vera Cruz820 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana724th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Wells County16th highest of 20
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Twin Hills940 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the town 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 town 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.