Washington Township, Porter County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
850 ft 260 m820 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 225 m720 ft 220 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
Washington Township, Porter County sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 740–810 ft
Lowest
720 ft 220 m
on the southeast side
Highest
850 ft 260 m
on the north side
Average
760 ft 230 m
all land inside township boundaries
Washington Township, Porter County spans about 130 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 | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 850 ft260 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 720 ft220 m |
| Airport (VPZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 770 ft235 m |
| Average of all land | 760 ft230 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.9 mi south to north through the middle of Washington Township, Porter County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Porter County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 5,881 2024 est.
- Land area
- 29.8 sq mi
- Density
- 197 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.4809° N, 87.0048° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kankakee River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Porter County Regional (VPZ) 770 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Valparaiso800 ft
- Center Township, Porter County800 ft
- New Durham Township790 ft
- Westville790 ft
- Jackson Township, Porter County790 ft
- Washington Township, Porter County790 ft
- Aberdeen760 ft
- Clinton Township, LaPorte County750 ft
- Wanatah730 ft
- Morgan Township, Porter County730 ft
- Liberty Township660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana884th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Porter County4th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Tom, Porter County750 ft
- Mount Jackson750 ft
- Mount Baldy720 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.