Elk Prairie Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
560 ft 170 m520 ft 160 m500 ft 150 m460 ft 140 m430 ft 130 m410 ft 125 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
Elk Prairie Township sits at about 440 ft (135 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
440 ft 135 m
most residents: 420–460 ft
Lowest
410 ft 125 m
on the southeast side
Highest
560 ft 170 m
on the west side
Average
430 ft 130 m
all land inside township boundaries
Elk Prairie Township spans about 150 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 | 440 ft135 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 560 ft170 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southeast side | 410 ft125 m |
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Elk Prairie Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Jefferson County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 671 2024 est.
- Land area
- 27.5 sq mi + 9.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 24 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 38.1937° N, 88.9920° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Big Muddy River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Blissville Township490 ft
- Bald Hill Township480 ft
- Sesser470 ft
- Goode Township470 ft
- Waltonville460 ft
- McClellan Township460 ft
- Elk Prairie Township440 ft
- Nason430 ft
- Bonnie430 ft
- Ina420 ft
- Spring Garden Township420 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,691st highest of 2,872
- Towns in Jefferson County22nd highest of 26
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Grammer Hill570 ft
- Moores Hill540 ft
- Webbs Hill500 ft
- Turkey Knob490 ft
- Browning Hill450 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).
- 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. All public domain.