Bethel Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
680 ft 210 m640 ft 195 m610 ft 185 m570 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 155 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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
Bethel Township sits at about 630 ft (190 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
630 ft 190 m
most residents: 570–660 ft
Lowest
500 ft 155 m
on the southwest side
Highest
680 ft 210 m
on the south side
Average
620 ft 190 m
all land inside township boundaries
Bethel Township spans about 180 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 | 630 ft190 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 680 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 500 ft155 m |
| Average of all land | 620 ft190 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.0 mi south to north through the middle of Bethel Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McDonough County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 298 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.6 sq mi
- Density
- 8.1 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3359° N, 90.7463° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- La Moine River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Colchester690 ft
- Colchester Township690 ft
- Tennessee690 ft
- Tennessee Township680 ft
- Chalmers Township660 ft
- Industry660 ft
- Industry Township650 ft
- Bethel Township630 ft
- Birmingham Township600 ft
- Brooklyn Township, Schuyler County580 ft
- Lamoine Township570 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois1,684th highest of 2,872
- Towns in McDonough County28th highest of 29
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Dyers Mound730 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); BTS time zones. All public domain.