Allen County, Indiana
Allen County covers 657 square miles of land. Below is what the Isopleth API returned at the Census Bureau's interior point for the county (41.09191, -85.07179) on 2026-10-29. The ground sits at 239 m (783 ft) on a 3.8° slope, the mapped soil is somewhat poorly drained, it is outside a mapped FEMA floodplain, the nearest 69 kV+ substation is 864 m away and a major road is 312 m away. Values describe that one point, not the whole county; look up your own address or coordinates for your site.
Sample point values
| field | value | source |
|---|---|---|
| FEMA flood zone | X | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 18003C_STUDY1 |
| Inside a mapped floodplain | No | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 18003C_STUDY1 |
| Wildfire, annual frequency | 0.0000100 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Tornado, annual frequency | 0.0018 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Hail, annual frequency | 3.4 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Elevation | 239 m (783 ft) | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Surveyvintage 3DEP 1/3 arc-second seamless DEM |
| Slope | 3.8° | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Survey |
| Soil drainage | Somewhat poorly drained | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO IN003 mukey 164667 |
| Soil hydrologic group | D | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO IN003 mukey 164667 |
| Farmland class | Prime if conditions met | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO IN003 mukey 164667 |
| Land use | Developed | USFS_LCMS USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS LCMS CONUS 2025 annual (30 m) |
| Crop or cover (CDL) | Developed/Low Intensity | USDA_CDL U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage USDA CDL 2025 (30 m) |
| Tree canopy | 22% | USFS_NLCD_TCC USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS/MRLC NLCD Tree Canopy Cover (latest annual, 30 m) |
| On protected land (PAD-US) | No | PAD_US USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US)vintage USGS PAD-US 4.1 (Protection Mechanism Category combined layer) |
| Surface manager | Private or unknown | BLM_SMA Bureau of Land Management |
| Annual precipitation (normal) | 983 mm (39 in) | NOAA_NCEI_NORMALS_GRIDDED National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 gridded (nClimGrid) monthly normals v1.0, annual layers |
| Days above 32 °C a year | 13 days | NOAA_NCEI_NCLIMGRID_DAILY National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA nClimGrid-Daily v1.0 (scaled), 1991-2020 mean annual day counts |
| Solar resource (GHI) | 4.09 kWh/m²/day | NREL_SOLAR_RESOURCE_V1 NREL Solar Resource Data (NSRDB)vintage NREL PSM v3 multiyear annual average (1998-2016, ~4 km, Americas) |
| Mean wind speed at 100 m | 7.0 m/s | NREL_WIND_TOOLKIT NREL WIND Toolkit (Draxl et al., 2015)vintage NREL WIND Toolkit CONUS v1.0.0, 2007-2013 (5-min, 2 km) |
| Wind capacity factor | 36% | NREL_REV_LANDBASED_WIND_SC_2024 NREL reV supply curves, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)vintage NREL reV land-based wind SC 2024 (Open access) |
| Nearest transmission line | 567 m | EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Nearest substation (69 kV+) | 864 m | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Nearest gas pipeline | 24.7 km (15.3 mi) | EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Electric utility | PAULDING-PUTMAN ELEC COOP, INC | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administrationvintage HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories |
| In a public water service area | Yes | EPA_CWS_SERVICE_AREAS U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyvintage V3.0 (2026-03-17) |
| Depth to water, nearest monitored well | 27.4 m (90 ft) | USGS_NWIS_OGC U.S. Geological Surveyvintage USGS Water Data discrete groundwater-level field measurements (latest per well) |
| Nearest major road | 312 m | OVERTURE_TRANSPORTATION © Overture Maps Foundation, © OpenStreetMap contributorsvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest FCC antenna structure | 974 m | FCC_ASR Federal Communications Commissionvintage FCC ASR weekly extract Sun Oct 25 06:21:42 EDT 2026 |
| Nearest fire station | 3.6 km (2.2 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest hospital | 2.3 km (1.5 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest school | 869 m | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| In an Opportunity Zone | No | HUD_OPPORTUNITY_ZONES U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Fields with no data at this point are left out. See the field catalog for all 351 fields.
Parcels
Parcel records: 3,682,675 parcels in 92 counties. Allen County has 164,128 of them. Published by Indiana Geographic Information Office (Data Harvest); counties (Public); Annual data harvest (loaddate 2025-07..10), refreshed annual.
Share of parcels with each column filled: site address 99%, land use 98%. Not published here: owner name, total value, sale date, zoning, year built.
The parcel under the sample point is 31.2 acres; its public record includes site address, land-use code. parcel_enrich returns that record for any parcel you ask about, and parcel_search finds parcels by acreage, land use or value.
Look up your own site
curl https://api.isopleth.dev/v1/fetch -H "Authorization: Bearer $ISOPLETH_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"lat": 41.091909, "lng": -85.071791, "preset": "site_selection"}'
Or ask your assistant through the MCP server: “Using Isopleth, check flood zone, wetlands, soils and distance to power for [your address in Allen County, Indiana].”
Buying land here? Check the Land’s Allen County page shows what its $29 report checks, built on these same Isopleth fields.
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