Union Township, Lawrence County, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
970 ft 295 m850 ft 260 m800 ft 245 m690 ft 210 m570 ft 175 m520 ft 160 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
Union Township, Lawrence County sits at about 590 ft (180 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
590 ft 180 m
most residents: 550–840 ft
Lowest
520 ft 160 m
on the southwest side
Highest
970 ft 295 m
on the north side
Average
700 ft 215 m
all land inside township boundaries
Union Township, Lawrence 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 | 590 ft180 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the north side | 970 ft295 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 520 ft160 m |
| Airport (HTS) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 4.8 mi southwest of the township boundaries | 828 ft252 m |
| Average of all land | 700 ft215 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
5.1 mi south to north through the middle of Union Township, Lawrence County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Lawrence County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 8,068 2024 est.
- Land area
- 32.0 sq mi + 0.6 sq mi water
- Density
- 252 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.4520° N, 82.4366° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Appalachian Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Tri-State/Milton J Ferguson Field (HTS) 828 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Windsor Township, Lawrence County790 ft
- Pea Ridge, WV590 ft
- Union Township, Lawrence County590 ft
- Fayette Township580 ft
- Barboursville, WV580 ft
- Rome Township570 ft
- Huntington, WV560 ft
- Burlington560 ft
- Chesapeake560 ft
- Ceredo, WV550 ft
- Proctorville550 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio2,502nd highest of 2,572
- Towns in Lawrence County9th highest of 23
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Tipton Knob1,000 ft
- Sand Hill, Lawrence County960 ft
- Big Four Hill880 ft
- Five Forks Hill870 ft
- Pigeon Knob870 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.