Council Hill Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
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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
Council Hill Township sits at about 810 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
810 ft 245 m
most residents: 730–880 ft
Lowest
620 ft 190 m
on the southwest side
Highest
990 ft 300 m
on the east side
Average
820 ft 250 m
all land inside township boundaries
Council Hill Township spans about 370 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 | 810 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the east side | 990 ft300 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 620 ft190 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Council Hill Township | 920 ft280 m |
| Average of all land | 820 ft250 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.1 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 131 2024 est.
- Land area
- 16.4 sq mi
- Density
- 8.0 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.4886° N, 90.3537° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- White Oak Springs, WI1,050 ft
- Scales Mound970 ft
- Scales Mound Township960 ft
- Hazel Green, WI940 ft
- Benton, WI910 ft
- New Diggings, WI890 ft
- Guilford Township870 ft
- Vinegar Hill Township810 ft
- Council Hill Township810 ft
- Rawlins Township800 ft
- Galena740 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois232nd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jo Daviess County21st highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Charles Mound1,230 ft
- Scales Mound1,160 ft
- Horseshoe Mound1,076 ft
- Wenzel Mound1,050 ft
- Dygerts Mound1,010 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, 620 ft at 42.4615° N, 90.3910° 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.