Independence, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,170 ft 355 m1,020 ft 310 m950 ft 290 m800 ft 245 m660 ft 200 m580 ft 180 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.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Independence sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 780–1,020 ft
Lowest
580 ft 180 m
on the north side
Highest
1,170 ft 355 m
on the southwest side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside city limits
Independence spans about 590 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 1,170 ft355 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the north side | 580 ft180 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Independence | 860 ft260 m |
| Airport (CLE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 9.9 mi west of the city limits | 800 ft244 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.4 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 7,518 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9.5 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 789 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.3687° N, 81.6379° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Cuyahoga River
- Airport
- Cleveland-Hopkins International (CLE) 800 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 44131
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Broadview Heights1,160 ft
- Seven Hills1,000 ft
- Walton Hills950 ft
- Maple Heights940 ft
- Brecksville910 ft
- Garfield Heights910 ft
- Parma880 ft
- Independence870 ft
- Brooklyn Heights760 ft
- Valley View750 ft
- Cuyahoga Heights630 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio1,473rd highest of 2,572
- Towns in Cuyahoga County36th highest of 59
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Orange Hill1,190 ft
- Reeds Hill, Medina County1,150 ft
- Cedar Point770 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city 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 city limits (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, 570 ft at 41.3768° N, 81.6232° 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, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.