Gold Hill Township, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
690 ft 210 m600 ft 185 m560 ft 170 m470 ft 140 m380 ft 115 m330 ft 100 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
Gold Hill 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: 370–420 ft
Lowest
330 ft 100 m
on the southwest side
Highest
690 ft 210 m
on Gold Hill
Average
390 ft 120 m
all land inside township boundaries
Gold Hill Township spans about 360 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 Gold Hill | 690 ft210 m |
| Lowest point Inside township boundaries, on the southwest side | 330 ft100 m |
| Average of all land | 390 ft120 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
6.1 mi south to north through the middle of Gold Hill Township.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Township in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 1,369 2024 est.
- Land area
- 35.0 sq mi + 0.3 sq mi water
- Density
- 39 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 37.7176° N, 88.1939° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Interior Low Plateaus
- Drains to
- Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Bowlesville Township440 ft
- Shawneetown400 ft
- Gold Hill Township400 ft
- Equality Township390 ft
- Eagle Creek Township380 ft
- North Fork Township380 ft
- Ridgway380 ft
- Ridgway Township380 ft
- Junction360 ft
- Shawnee Township350 ft
- Old Shawneetown350 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois2,793rd highest of 2,872
- Towns in Gallatin County3rd highest of 17
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Cave Hill930 ft
- High Knob920 ft
- Gold Hill690 ft
- Maher Hill610 ft
- Colbert Hill580 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.