Elevation of Carmel, Indiana, United States of America

Carmel, Indiana, United States of America is 261 m (856 ft) above sea level.

Carmel's height from sea level is 261 metres, or 856 feet. GeoNames reads 262 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 260 m.

Ground within 5 km

216 m – 277 m

Mean 255 m across the 9 km square centred on the town, 61 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 21

among the towns of Indiana, and 246th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

Fishers

9.2 km to the E, at 251 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Carmel

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Carmel; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 270 m at 13 km west to 250 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 280 m at 13 km north to 231 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 53 km around Carmel, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 53 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Carmel

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Fishers	9.2 km	E	251 m (823 ft)	−10 m
Noblesville	11.9 km	NE	236 m (774 ft)	−25 m
Lawrence	17.4 km	SE	266 m (873 ft)	+5 m
Indianapolis	23.6 km	S	227 m (745 ft)	−34 m
Anderson	39.9 km	E	267 m (876 ft)	+6 m

Where Carmel is

Latitude 39.978371, longitude -86.1180435. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Carmel's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 262 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.