Van Buren Township, Shelby County, OH Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,010 ft 310 m990 ft 300 m970 ft 295 m950 ft 290 m920 ft 280 m910 ft 275 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
Van Buren Township, Shelby County sits at about 970 ft (295 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
970 ft 295 m
most residents: 930–980 ft
Lowest
910 ft 275 m
on the northwest side
Highest
1,010 ft 310 m
on the northeast side
Average
960 ft 295 m
all land inside township boundaries
Van Buren Township, Shelby County spans about 100 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 | 970 ft295 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 1,010 ft310 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 910 ft275 m |
| Airport (AXV) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.8 mi north of the township boundaries | 912 ft278 m |
| Average of all land | 960 ft295 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
7.0 mi south to north through the middle of Van Buren Township, Shelby County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Shelby County, Ohio, United States
- Population
- 2,085 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.9 sq mi + 0.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 57 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4287° N, 84.2686° W
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Loramie Creek → Great Miami River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Neil Armstrong (AXV) 912 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Anna1,030 ft
- Dinsmore Township1,010 ft
- Botkins1,000 ft
- Kettlersville980 ft
- Van Buren Township, Shelby County970 ft
- Jackson Township, Auglaize County960 ft
- Minster960 ft
- New Bremen950 ft
- German Township, Auglaize County940 ft
- Washington Township, Auglaize County900 ft
- New Knoxville900 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Ohio989th highest of 2,572
- Towns in Shelby County20th highest of 24
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Lookout1,100 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).
- 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, 900 ft at 40.4801° N, 84.3368° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.