Washington Township, Shelby County, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
830 ft 255 m790 ft 240 m770 ft 235 m730 ft 220 m680 ft 210 m660 ft 200 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
Washington Township, Shelby County sits at about 720 ft (220 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
720 ft 220 m
most residents: 690–760 ft
Lowest
660 ft 200 m
on the southwest side
Highest
830 ft 255 m
on the south side
Average
720 ft 220 m
all land inside township boundaries
Washington Township, Shelby County spans about 170 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 | 720 ft220 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 830 ft255 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 660 ft200 m |
| Average of all land | 720 ft220 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.6 mi west to east through the middle of Washington Township, Shelby County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Shelby County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 1,177 2024 est.
- Land area
- 34.8 sq mi
- Density
- 34 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3864° N, 85.7876° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Flatrock River → 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
- Noble Township, Shelby County810 ft
- Geneva, Shelby County780 ft
- Shelby Township, Shelby County770 ft
- Jackson Township, Shelby County740 ft
- Haw Creek Township730 ft
- Hope730 ft
- Washington Township, Shelby County720 ft
- Schaefer Lake720 ft
- Marietta720 ft
- Flat Rock690 ft
- Flat Rock Township670 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,133rd highest of 1,977
- Towns in Shelby County26th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Guffy Hill950 ft
- Renner Hill930 ft
- McFarren Hill850 ft
- McCrea Hill820 ft
- Money Hill800 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).
- 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, 580 ft at 39.3638° N, 85.8076° 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.