Elgin Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
950 ft 290 m890 ft 270 m860 ft 260 m790 ft 240 m720 ft 220 m690 ft 210 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
Elgin Township sits at about 800 ft (245 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
800 ft 245 m
most residents: 750–830 ft
Lowest
690 ft 210 m
on the south side
Highest
950 ft 290 m
on the northwest side
Average
800 ft 245 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elgin Township spans about 260 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 | 800 ft245 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the northwest side | 950 ft290 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the south side | 690 ft210 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elgin Township | 740 ft225 m |
| Airport (DPA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.5 mi south of the township boundaries | 759 ft231 m |
| Average of all land | 800 ft245 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
5.8 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Kane County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 105,129 2024 est.
- Land area
- 31.9 sq mi + 0.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 3,294 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.0372° N, 88.2812° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Fox River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Dupage (DPA) 759 ft
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Carpentersville890 ft
- Dundee Township870 ft
- East Dundee810 ft
- Streamwood810 ft
- Hanover Township810 ft
- Elgin800 ft
- Sleepy Hollow800 ft
- Elgin Township800 ft
- Bartlett790 ft
- West Dundee780 ft
- South Elgin780 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois274th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Kane County21st highest of 40
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Johnsons Mound890 ft
- Mount Hoy830 ft
- Blanchard Hill780 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, 690 ft at 41.9865° N, 88.2924° 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.