Bear Creek Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
640 ft 195 m620 ft 190 m610 ft 185 m590 ft 180 m570 ft 175 m560 ft 170 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 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
Bear Creek Township sits at about 620 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
620 ft 190 m
most residents: 600–630 ft
Lowest
560 ft 170 m
on the northeast side
Highest
640 ft 195 m
on the west side
Average
610 ft 185 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bear Creek Township spans about 80 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 | 620 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 640 ft195 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Airport (TAZ) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 2.0 mi northeast of the township boundaries | 622 ft190 m |
| Average of all land | 610 ft185 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.9 mi west to east through the middle of Bear Creek Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Christian County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 485 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi
- Density
- 14 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 39.4751° N, 89.4137° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- South Fork Sangamon River → Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Taylorville Municipal (TAZ) 622 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- King Township630 ft
- Morrisonville630 ft
- Ricks Township630 ft
- Palmer620 ft
- Bear Creek Township620 ft
- Johnson Township610 ft
- Langleyville600 ft
- Bulpitt600 ft
- South Fork Township600 ft
- Kincaid600 ft
- Jeisyville600 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,799th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Christian County14th highest of 31
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cotton Hill610 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).
- 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.