Carrigan Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m530 ft 165 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m470 ft 145 m460 ft 140 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
Carrigan Township sits at about 520 ft (160 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
520 ft 160 m
most residents: 480–540 ft
Lowest
460 ft 140 m
on the west side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the southeast side
Average
510 ft 155 m
all land inside township boundaries
Carrigan Township spans about 100 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 | 520 ft160 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 460 ft140 m |
| Airport (SLO) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.6 mi southeast of the township boundaries | 573 ft175 m |
| Average of all land | 510 ft155 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the middle of Carrigan Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Marion County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 352 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.1 sq mi
- Density
- 10 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.6869° N, 89.0794° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Kaskaskia River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Salem-Leckrone (SLO) 573 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Tonti Township570 ft
- Odin530 ft
- Odin Township520 ft
- Carrigan Township520 ft
- Sandoval510 ft
- Patoka Township500 ft
- Patoka500 ft
- Sandoval Township500 ft
- Junction City490 ft
- Pope Township480 ft
- East Fork Township, Clinton County470 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,361st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Marion County18th highest of 30
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Lowe Mound590 ft
- Fikes Hill580 ft
- The Mound, Fayette County570 ft
- Browns Hill550 ft
- Corcoran Hill539 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.