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Ohio Physical Map

Ohio’s eastern hills are the western edge of the Appalachian Plateau — visible on a physical map but invisible on a political one.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Campbell Hill

1,549 ft

Lowest Point

Ohio River

455 ft

Ohio physical map showing the Allegheny Plateau, the Lake Erie shoreline, and the Till Plains, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Ohio terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Ohio physical map, labeled: the Allegheny Plateau, the Lake Erie shoreline, and the Till Plains, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Ohio blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Ohio physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Ohio relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Ohio relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Ohio relief wall art

Ohio on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Ohio

Glaciers flattened the western half of Ohio into the Till Plains, some of the best farmland in the country. Campbell Hill, the highest point, is a low rise there. The northwest is a very flat plain that was once the bed of a larger Lake Erie. The eastern and southeastern parts of the state are on the Allegheny Plateau, a region of steep hills and narrow valleys. Lake Erie forms most of the northern border, and the Ohio River forms the southern and southeastern border.

Major rivers

  • Ohio
  • Scioto
  • Muskingum
  • Great Miami
  • Maumee
  • Cuyahoga

Find it on the map

  • The hills of the southeast against the flatter west
  • The Ohio River along the southern border
  • The Lake Erie shore and its islands
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Ohio physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Ohio political map

The blank outline version of Ohio (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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