Dawson Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
930 ft 285 m900 ft 275 m880 ft 270 m850 ft 260 m810 ft 250 m800 ft 245 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
Dawson Township sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 850–890 ft
Lowest
800 ft 240 m
on the south side
Highest
930 ft 285 m
on the southwest side
Average
870 ft 265 m
all land inside township boundaries
Dawson Township spans about 130 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 930 ft285 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 800 ft240 m |
| Airport (BMI) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi west of the township boundaries | 871 ft265 m |
| Average of all land | 870 ft265 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Dawson Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in McLean County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 553 2024 est.
- Land area
- 37.3 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 15 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.4461° N, 88.7319° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Sangamon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Central Il Regional/Bloomington-Normal (BMI) 871 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Arrowsmith880 ft
- Arrowsmith Township870 ft
- Dawson Township870 ft
- Ellsworth870 ft
- Old Town Township840 ft
- Downs790 ft
- Downs Township790 ft
- Le Roy780 ft
- Blue Mound Township, McLean County770 ft
- Cooksville770 ft
- West Township, McLean County760 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois118th highest of 2,872
- Towns in McLean County3rd highest of 53
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, McLean County850 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, 790 ft at 40.3993° N, 88.7226° 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); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.