Elevation of Gary, Indiana, United States of America

Gary, Indiana, United States of America is 187 m (614 ft) above sea level.

Gary's height from sea level is 187 metres, or 614 feet. GeoNames reads 185 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 180 m.

Ground within 4 km

175 m – 196 m

Mean 184 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 21 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 21

among the towns of Indiana, and 407th of 1,000 in United States of America.

Nearest town

12.8 km to the W, at 188 m, 1 m higher.

Cross-section through Gary

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gary; the vertical scale is the same on both.

222161WE25.1 km
West to east: from 184 m at 13 km west to 189 m at 13 km east.
222161NS25.1 km
North to south: from 175 m at 13 km north to 208 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 53 km around Gary, 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 Gary

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hammond 12.8 kmW 188 m (617 ft) +1 m
Tinley Park (Illinois) 36.5 kmW 213 m (699 ft) +26 m
Oak Lawn (Illinois) 36.6 kmW 186 m (610 ft) −1 m
Chicago (Illinois) 39.4 kmNW 195 m (640 ft) +8 m

Where Gary is

Latitude 41.5933696, longitude -87.3464271. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gary elevation: 187 m (614 ft) above sea level

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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 Gary'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 185 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.