Canaan Township, Athens County, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m940 ft 285 m880 ft 270 m770 ft 235 m660 ft 200 m600 ft 185 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
Canaan Township, Athens County sits at about 850 ft (260 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
850 ft 260 m
most residents: 670–940 ft
Lowest
600 ft 185 m
on the east side
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the north side
Average
810 ft 245 m
all land inside township boundaries
Canaan Township, Athens County spans about 450 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 | 850 ft260 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 600 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 810 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.3 mi west to east through the middle of Canaan Township, Athens County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Athens County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 1,629 2024 est.
- Land area
- 38.1 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 43 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.3151° N, 82.0187° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Hocking 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
- Ames Township860 ft
- Canaan Township, Athens County850 ft
- Lodi Township840 ft
- Rome Township, Athens County760 ft
- Dover Township, Athens County720 ft
- The Plains720 ft
- Athens Township690 ft
- Athens670 ft
- Stewart660 ft
- Amesville660 ft
- Chauncey660 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,566th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Athens County2nd highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Nebo1,040 ft
- Bloemer Berg1,000 ft
- Riley Hill980 ft
- Jasper Hill930 ft
- Chandlers Hill920 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); BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.