Waterloo, IN Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation

960 ft 290 m940 ft 285 m930 ft 285 m910 ft 275 m890 ft 270 m880 ft 270 m

Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft

USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau

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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

Waterloo sits at about 900 ft (275 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.

Typical elevation

900 ft 275 m

most residents: 890–920 ft

Lowest

880 ft 270 m

on the east side

Highest

960 ft 290 m

on the west side

Average

910 ft 280 m

all land inside town limits

Waterloo spans about 80 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	900 ft275 m
Highest point Inside town limits, on the west side	960 ft290 m
Lowest point Inside town limits, on the east side	880 ft270 m
Town center USGS map point for Waterloo	910 ft275 m
Airport (GWB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi south of the town limits	880 ft268 m
Average of all land	910 ft280 m

Elevation profile, west to east

2.2 mi west to east through the town center.

Topographic Map

Location: Town in DeKalb County, Indiana, United States
Population: 2,157 2024 est.
Land area: 2.1 sq mi
Density: 1,020 per sq mi
Coordinates: 41.4320° N, 85.0200° W
Time zone: Eastern UTC−5 / −4
Landform region: Central Lowland
Drains to: Cedar Creek → Maumee River
Airport: Auburn/Dekalb Exec (GWB) 880 ft
ZIP codes 1: 46793

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA

Nearby Places

Nearby towns by typical elevation

Rankings by typical elevation

Towns in Indiana349th highest of 1,977
Towns in DeKalb County7th highest of 24

Peaks and hills nearest, by height

Sand Hill, Noble County1,080 ft
Baby Mountain1,020 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.