Browning Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
570 ft 175 m520 ft 160 m490 ft 150 m440 ft 135 m400 ft 120 m370 ft 115 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
Browning Township sits at about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
430 ft 130 m
most residents: 400–460 ft
Lowest
370 ft 115 m
on the southwest side
Highest
570 ft 175 m
on Grammer Hill
Average
410 ft 125 m
all land inside township boundaries
Browning Township spans about 200 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 | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on Grammer Hill | 570 ft175 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 370 ft115 m |
| Airport (H96) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways | 444 ft135 m |
| Average of all land | 410 ft125 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Browning Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Franklin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 2,353 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 66 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9922° N, 88.9669° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Benton Municipal (H96) 444 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- North City460 ft
- Barren Township450 ft
- Benton450 ft
- Benton Township, Franklin County450 ft
- West City450 ft
- Tyrone Township440 ft
- Christopher440 ft
- Browning Township430 ft
- Valier430 ft
- Orient420 ft
- Buckner400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,697th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Franklin County18th highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grammer Hill570 ft
- Moores Hill540 ft
- Webbs Hill500 ft
- Turkey Knob490 ft
- Browning Hill450 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.