De Soto Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
520 ft 160 m480 ft 145 m460 ft 140 m420 ft 130 m380 ft 115 m360 ft 110 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
De Soto Township sits at about 400 ft (120 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
400 ft 120 m
most residents: 380–420 ft
Lowest
360 ft 110 m
on the southwest side
Highest
520 ft 160 m
on the northwest side
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside township boundaries
De Soto Township spans about 160 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 | 400 ft120 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 520 ft160 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 360 ft110 m |
| Town center USGS map point for De Soto Township | 400 ft120 m |
| Airport (MWA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 7.8 mi east of the township boundaries | 472 ft144 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jackson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 2,292 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.5 sq mi + 1.5 sq mi water
- Density
- 63 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.8176° N, 89.2279° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois (MWA) 472 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Cambria430 ft
- Carbondale420 ft
- Carbondale Township420 ft
- Bush410 ft
- Blairsville400 ft
- Somerset Township400 ft
- Harrison400 ft
- De Soto Township400 ft
- De Soto400 ft
- Elkville400 ft
- Hurst390 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,804th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jackson County20th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Swallow Rock670 ft
- McKinney Hill520 ft
- Mount Carbon500 ft
- Indian Hill, Jackson County480 ft
- Dutch Hill, Jackson County440 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, 350 ft at 37.8326° N, 89.2615° 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.