Essex Township, Stark County, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
740 ft 225 m710 ft 215 m690 ft 210 m660 ft 200 m630 ft 190 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
Essex Township, Stark County sits at about 700 ft (215 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
700 ft 215 m
most residents: 650–700 ft
Lowest
610 ft 185 m
on the southwest side
Highest
740 ft 225 m
on the west side
Average
670 ft 205 m
all land inside township boundaries
Essex Township, Stark County 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 | 700 ft215 m |
| Highest point Inside township boundaries, on the west side | 740 ft225 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 610 ft185 m |
| Average of all land | 670 ft205 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
6.0 mi west to east through the middle of Essex Township, Stark County.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Stark County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 572 2024 est.
- Land area
- 36.1 sq mi
- Density
- 16 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 41.0507° N, 89.7878° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Spoon River → Illinois River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Penn Township770 ft
- Elmira Township760 ft
- Princeville Township740 ft
- Goshen Township740 ft
- Princeville740 ft
- Toulon730 ft
- Toulon Township720 ft
- Wyoming710 ft
- Essex Township, Stark County700 ft
- Valley Township690 ft
- West Jersey Township690 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois867th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Stark County10th highest of 12
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, 610 ft at 40.9768° N, 89.8421° 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. All public domain.