West Creek Township, IN Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
770 ft 235 m700 ft 215 m670 ft 205 m600 ft 185 m530 ft 165 m500 ft 155 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
West Creek Township sits at about 710 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
710 ft 215 m
most residents: 670–730 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the south side
Highest
760 ft 235 m
on the north side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
West Creek Township spans about 260 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 | 710 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 760 ft235 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 500 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
12 mi south to north through the middle of West Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lake County, Indiana, United States
- Population
- 7,961 2024 est.
- Land area
- 62.0 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 128 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.2978° N, 87.4534° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kankakee River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cedar Lake730 ft
- Eagle Lake, IL730 ft
- Center Township, Lake County720 ft
- Hanover Township720 ft
- West Creek Township710 ft
- Lake Dalecarlia710 ft
- Lowell700 ft
- Cedar Creek Township, Lake County700 ft
- Eagle Creek Township690 ft
- Shelby640 ft
- Schneider630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Indiana1,200th highest of 1,977
- Towns in Lake County8th highest of 35
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, 440 ft at 41.2435° N, 87.4474° 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.