Elizabeth Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,090 ft 335 m970 ft 295 m910 ft 280 m790 ft 240 m670 ft 205 m610 ft 185 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
Elizabeth 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: 710–850 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
1,090 ft 335 m
on the northwest side
Average
770 ft 235 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elizabeth Township spans about 480 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 | 1,090 ft335 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Elizabeth Township | 810 ft250 m |
| Average of all land | 770 ft235 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 972 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.9 sq mi
- Density
- 26 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 42.3178° N, 90.2215° 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
- Guilford Township870 ft
- Apple Canyon Lake860 ft
- Thompson Township860 ft
- The Galena Territory820 ft
- Woodbine Township820 ft
- Elizabeth810 ft
- Derinda Township810 ft
- Elizabeth Township800 ft
- Rice Township750 ft
- Hanover Township, Jo Daviess County650 ft
- Hanover640 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois269th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jo Daviess County26th highest of 35
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Horseshoe Mound1,076 ft
- Dygerts Mound1,010 ft
- Pilot Knob, Jo Daviess County1,000 ft
- Heer Hill940 ft
- Lost Mound880 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, 600 ft at 42.3226° N, 90.2599° 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.