Cave Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
600 ft 185 m550 ft 170 m530 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m430 ft 130 m400 ft 125 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
Cave Township sits at about 480 ft (150 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
480 ft 150 m
most residents: 460–510 ft
Lowest
400 ft 125 m
on the northwest side
Highest
610 ft 185 m
on the northeast side
Average
470 ft 145 m
all land inside township boundaries
Cave Township spans about 210 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 | 480 ft150 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northeast side | 610 ft185 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 400 ft125 m |
| Average of all land | 470 ft145 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Cave Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Franklin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,654 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.8 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 46 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.9113° N, 88.7650° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Flannigan Township530 ft
- South Flannigan Township520 ft
- Thompsonville490 ft
- Cave Township480 ft
- Hanaford470 ft
- Eastern Township470 ft
- Tate Township460 ft
- Galatia Township420 ft
- Galatia420 ft
- Frankfort Township, Franklin County410 ft
- West Frankfort400 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,489th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Franklin County2nd highest of 27
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grammer Hill570 ft
- Bunker Hill, Hamilton County560 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).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 400 ft at 37.9301° N, 88.8143° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- 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.